[amsat-bb] API for satellite status now being tested.

[Mike Diehl]

Thanks, Heimir and Joe. I’ve been playing with this today on a ESP8266 module and it works great so far. An array of all available sat names would definitely be welcome, look forward to that. 

I do have one wishlist item though. Something like name=ALL would be nice so that we wouldn’t have to hammer the AMSAT server with many requests just to get all the data for all available satellites. 

Thanks again for adding JSON support, it’s definitely appreciated. 

73,
Mike Diehl
W8LID/VE6LID

> On Jan 10, 2020, at 08:27, Joseph B. Fitzgerald via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to the efforts of Heimir, W1ANT, an API has been added to retrieve satellite status data as used in the amsat.org/status page.     Send a query like :  amsat.org/status/api/v1/sat_info.php?name=AO-91&hours=24 and you will get the last 24 hours of reports for AO-91 in JSON format.   The hours parameter is optional, if you omit it you will get the last 96 hours of reports.  The name of the satellite must match the string shown on amsat.org/status ,  i.e AO-91 works, but AO-92 does not ... use AO-92_L/v or AO-92_U/v  instead.
> 
> This API is not stable yet ... we are still working on the time, and it seems a query for the list of available satellites is in order.   For the moment, all reports show half past the hour that they were in.
> 
> 
> de KM1P Joe
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