Spaceflight News API was created as a solution for my problem when I wanted to develop an app for Spaceflight News: many (great!) news sites with different API's.
To make it easier for myself, I began a project that would aggegrate metadata from those news sites and publish them through an API. Since there are others that might benefit from this API, I decided make the API publicly available.
There are great apps out on the internet, that are connected to services like https://thespacedevs.com/. By making this API available to everyone, I hope to open new doors for the developers of these apps.
The documentation is generated from the code, and can be found at https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v3/documentation.
In Juli 2020, Launch Library 2.0 was released, within the new The Space Devs group. I've joined this group as a partner developer, and started finalizing SNAPI 2.0.
Version 2.0 of SNAPI is a rewrite of the enitre API. It's using the amazing Strapi as a backend, with custom endpoints written by me. SNAPI 2 sets the stage for new features to come. 2.0 focuses on bringing the existing features to the new format.
In the Spring of 2021, Strapi announced that they would retire support for MongoDB. Since SNAPI was using MongoDB as the database, this had quite a big impact. Version 3 of the API is exactly the same as version 2 (in terms of the response), except the ID's. These changed from ObjectID's (strings) to integers.
Starting from version 2, we now have Launch Library 2 integration. This way you can easily get news related to a specific launch. A nice to have if you want to have a "related news/launches" section in your app!
- Nasaspaceflight,
- Spacex,
- Spaceflightnow,
- Space.com,
- Spacenews,
- Nasa,
- Phys,
- Arstechnica,
- Blueorigin,
- Spaceflightinsider,
- Thejapantimes,
- Theverge,
- Teslarati,
- Elonx,
- Virgingalactic,
- Esa
- Planetary Society
- National Space Society
- Package updates
- Sentry fixes
- Package updates
- Various Sentry issues fixed
- Strapi updates
- Sentry updates
- Admin interface updates
- Switch to use Postgres as database
- The lost "article per (LL2) event" endpoint is back
- Changed the G4L logo on the site
- Added Sentry again, via the new Strapi plugin
- Changed from amqplib to amqp-connection-manager
- Updated to Strapi 3.5.3
- Dependency updates
- Code cleanup
- Admin side of things
- Backend changes on how new content is processed
- Package updates
- Complete rewrite of the app, focusing on existing features
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