We announce the public release of the application program interface (API) for the Open Astronomy Catalogs (OACs), the OACAPI. The OACs serve near-complete collections of supernova, tidal disruption, kilonova, and fast stars data (including photometry, spectra, radio, and X-ray observations) via a user-friendly web interface that displays the data interactively and offers full data downloads. The OACAPI, by contrast, enables users to specifically download particular pieces of the OAC dataset via a flexible programmatic syntax, either via URL GET requests, or via a module within the astroquery Python package.
@article{arxiv.1804.10847,
title = {Open Astronomy Catalogs API},
author = {James Guillochon and Philip S. Cowperthwaite},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.10847},
year = {2018}
}
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Published in RNAAS. A living description of the API is available at https://github.com/astrocatalogs/OACAPI