Spaceflight News API
The 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 APIs.
To make it easier for myself, I began a project that would aggregate 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.
Documentation 📖
The documentation is generated from the code, and can be found at https://api.spaceflightnewsapi.net/v4/documentation.
Evolution 📈
Version 2
In July 2020, Launch Library 2.0 was released, within the new The Space Devs API 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 entire API using Strapi as a backend, with custom endpoints written by me. SNAPI 2 sets the stage for new features to come and focuses on bringing the existing features to the new format.
Version 3
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 IDs. These changed from ObjectIDs (strings) to integers.
Version 4
In 2023 SNAPI V4 launched, completely re-written in Python (Django) for various reasons. Using proven libraries, this version is focussed on long-term stability and maintainability.
Launch Library 2 integration 🚀
Starting from version 2, we now have Launch Library 2 API 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!
Currently imported news sites 🌐
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- AmericaSpace - Arstechnica - Blue Origin - CNBC - ESA - ElonX - Euronews - European Spaceflight - Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA - NASASpaceflight - National Geographic - National Space Society - Phys - Planetary Society - Reuters - Space.com - SpaceFlight Insider - SpaceNews - SpacePolicyOnline.com - SpaceX - Spaceflight Now - SyFy - TechCrunch - Teslarati - The Drive - The Japan Times - The Launch Pad - The National - The New York Times - The Space Devs - The Space Review - The Verge - The Wall Street Journal - United Launch Alliance - Virgin GalacticChangelog 📝
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# V4.0.5 - Package updates - Migrated to Python 3.12 # V4.0.0 - Rewritten in Python and Django. # V3.4.0 - Package updates - Sentry fixes # V3.0.0 - Package updates ### V3.2.0 - Various Sentry issues fixed ### V3.1.0 - Strapi updates - Sentry updates - Admin interface updates ### V3.0.0 - Switch to use Postgres as database ### V2.3.0 - 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 ### v2.2.0 - Dependency updates - Code cleanup - Admin side of things ### v2.1.0 - Backend changes on how new content is processed - Package updates ### v2.0.0 - Complete rewrite of the app, focusing on existing featuresShowcase
For a list of users, please visit the users page. On the profile page of TheSpaceDevs organisation, you'll also find a simple showcase of the API.