The Outer Planets Unified Search (OPUS) - Searching for Planetary Mission Data via the API

In addition to a user-friendly web interface, OPUS provides a well-documented RESTful API that can be used by anyone to perform searches programmatically. Previous uses of the API have included searching for and downloading images for research on Saturn’s rings and a Twitter bot that posted daily space images with NASA-inspired poetry.

In this hands-on, interactive workshop, I will present the basics of the OPUS API and invite attendees to follow along by typing API commands into their web browser. As in the previous workshop, I invite attendees to ask real-time questions and to propose their own scenarios that we can try to solve using the API.

It is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED that you attend the workshop on the web-based interface before joining this workshop, as the previous content will not be repeated and will be extremely helpful for understanding how the API works.