nasa for node

A simple-to-use node.js client for NASA's data API.

install

Node library:

npm install nasa

CLI tool:

npm install -g nasa

From source:

git clone git://github.com/ecto/node-nasa.git 
cd node-nasa
npm link

library

##example

var nasa = require('nasa');

nasa.dataset({ id: 619 }, function(err, data){
  if (err) console.log(err);
  else console.log(data);
});

##methods

All options are objects. { option: 'value' }

All callbacks (cb) shoult be formed as function(err, data){}

If not null, callback errs will contain a String explaining error.

###nasa.dataset(options, cb)

Returns specified dataset

options requires one of { id: Number } or { slug: String }, but not both.

###nasa.search(options, cb)

Returns datasets matching search

Requires String search

Optional count (default 10)

###nasa.recent(options, cb)

Returns recent datasets

Optional count (default 10)

nasa.dates(cb)

Returns index of all dates

###nasa.date(date, count = 10, cb)

Returns datasets matching a specific date

Requires String date set to a date in the format YYYY or YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD (non-numeric characters are stripped from the var, so YYYYMMDD or YYYY/MM/DD are also valid)

Optional count (default 10)

nasa.categories(cb)

Returns index of categories

###nasa.category(options, cb)

Returns specified category

options requires one of { id: Number } or { slug: String }, but not both.

Optional count (default 10)

nasa.tags(cb)

Returns index of tags

###nasa.tag(options, cb)

Returns specified tag

options requires one of { id: Number } or { slug: String }, but not both.

Optional count (default 10)

CLI

##example

##commands

license

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Cam Pedersen cam@onswipe.com

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