astroquery: An Astronomical Web-Querying Package in Python
Abstract
astroquery is a collection of tools for requesting data from databases hosted on remote servers with interfaces exposed on the internet, including those with web pages but without formal application program interfaces (APIs). These tools are built on the Python requests package, which is used to make HTTP requests, and astropy, which provides most of the data parsing functionality. astroquery modules generally attempt to replicate the web page interface provided by a given service as closely as possible, making the transition from browser-based to command-line interaction easy. astroquery has received significant contributions from throughout the astronomical community, including several significant contributions from telescope archives. astroquery enables the creation of fully reproducible workflows from data acquisition through publication. This paper describes the philosophy, basic structure, and development model of the astroquery package. The complete documentation for astroquery can be found at http://astroquery.readthedocs.io/.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1901.04520,
title = {astroquery: An Astronomical Web-Querying Package in Python},
author = {Adam Ginsburg and Brigitta M. Sipőcz and C. E. Brasseur and Philip S. Cowperthwaite and Matthew W. Craig and Christoph Deil and James Guillochon and Giannina Guzman and Simon Liedtke and Pey Lian Lim and Kelly E. Lockhart and Michael Mommert and Brett M. Morris and Henrik Norman and Madhura Parikh and Magnus V. Persson and Thomas P. Robitaille and Juan-Carlos Segovia and Leo P. Singer and Erik J. Tollerud and Miguel de Val-Borro and Ivan Valtchanov and Julien Woillez and the Astroquery collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.04520},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Accepted to AJ. The documentation is at http://astroquery.readthedocs.io/ and the repository is at https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/