NASA Images API

The NASA Images API (https://images.nasa.gov/docs/images.nasa.gov_api_docs.pdf ) provides access to the media available at images.nasa.gov.

The images.nasa.gov API offers several endpoints:

Search
Performs a parameterized search for media assets

    https://images-api.nasa.gov/search?parms

Asset
Retrieves an asset’s manifest based on its nasa_id

    https://images-api.nasa.gov/asset/{nasa_id}

Metadata
Retrieve an asset’s metadata location based on its nasa_id

    https://images-api.nasa.gov/metadata/{nasa_id}

Captions
Retrieve an asset’s captions based on its nasa_id

    https://images-api.nasa.gov/captions/{nasa_id}

https://images.nasa.gov

TheNASA Images API is a REST based web service that only returns data formatted in JSON. The base address of the API is:

    https://images-api.nasa.gov

The format of requests to the API depends upon the endpoint:

EndPoint	Request
Search	https://images-api.nasa.gov/search?parms
Asset	https://images-api.nasa.gov/asset/{nasa_id}
Metadata	https://images-api.nasa.gov/metadata/{nasa_id}
Captions	https://images-api.nasa.gov/captions/{nasa_id}

Where:
    parms => URL parameters used to filter data being returned from the search
    nasa_id => A code that uniquely identifies the data to be returned

Operation	Description
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