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NASA APOD

Government

Built when you ask for it

Sync NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day archive. Ingest builds this connector the first time a customer asks for it, then keeps the tables current in a data warehouse you own, on the schedule you choose.

The NASA APOD connector syncs the Astronomy Picture of the Day archive into analytics-ready tables in your data warehouse. Pull entries by date or range, with titles, explanations, media URLs, and copyright, from the NASA Open APIs, with Ingest handling auth, pagination, and retries so the tables stay current.

What you would get

Each of these arrives as its own table, kept current on the schedule you choose:

  • Daily entries
  • Date ranges
  • Media URLs
  • Attribution

How it gets built

  1. Choose NASA APOD when you set up a pipeline, with the warehouse it goes to and a schedule.
  2. Ingest reads NASA APOD's documentation, and you choose the tables you want.
  3. Ingest builds the connector and tests it against NASA APOD itself.
  4. A person at Ingest reviews and publishes it, and your pipeline starts on its own.

What you will need

API key. Get a free key at api.nasa.gov, or use DEMO_KEY for a low rate limit.

You enter it once, in a form in Ingest, and it is kept in a secret store set aside for your organization.

Questions

Does Ingest have a NASA APOD connector?
Not as a finished connector yet. Ingest builds it from NASA APOD's own documentation the first time a customer asks, tests it against the real service, and lists it once it passes.
Which warehouses can NASA APOD data go to?
Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Apache Iceberg, Ingest Managed Lakehouse, MotherDuck, Postgres, Amazon Athena, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, MySQL / generic SQL and Snowflake, in an account you own.
Do I need to write code?
No. Ingest builds, runs and maintains the connector. Someone with access to your warehouse connects it once, following a short guide.

NASA APOD API documentation: https://api.nasa.gov/

Setting up the destination is its own short guide, one per warehouse or lake: Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Apache Iceberg, Ingest Managed Lakehouse, MotherDuck, Postgres, Amazon Athena, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, MySQL / generic SQL, Snowflake.

Other sources Ingest connects for government teams: Abilene TX 311, Albany NY 311, Ann Arbor MI 311, Anne Arundel County MD 311, Auburn WA 311, Aurora IL 311.

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