NASA

tap-nasa (airbyte variant)🥉

National Aeronautics and Space Administration API

The tap-nasa extractor pulls data from NASA that can then be sent to a destination using a loader.

Airbyte Usage Notice

This connector uses tap-airbyte-wrapper to call the underlying Airbyte source Docker container. This means you must have Docker installed and running prior to usage. We also recommend using Meltano version 2.13.0 or later.

Container-based connectors can introduce deployment challenges including the potential need to run Docker-in-Docker (not currently supported by services like AWS ECS, Meltano Cloud, etc. see FAQ and Airbyte's ECS deployment docs for more details). Before using this variant we recommend considering if/how you will be able to deploy container-based connectors to production.

For more context on how this Airbyte integration works please checkout out the FAQ in the Meltano Docs.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

If you haven't already, follow the initial steps of the Getting Started guide:

  1. Install Meltano
  2. Create your Meltano project

Installation and configuration

  1. Add the tap-nasa extractor to your project using 
    meltano add
     : 
    2. meltano add extractor tap-nasa
  2. Configure the tap-nasa settings using 
    meltano config
     : 
    3. meltano config tap-nasa set --interactive
  3. Test that extractor settings are valid using 
    meltano config
     : 
    4. meltano config tap-nasa test

Next steps

If you run into any issues, learn how to get help.

Capabilities

The current capabilities for tap-nasa may have been automatically set when originally added to the Hub. Please review the capabilities when using this extractor. If you find they are out of date, please consider updating them by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the capabilities for this extractor.

This plugin has the following capabilities:

  • about
  • catalog
  • discover
  • schema-flattening
  • state
  • stream-maps

You can override these capabilities or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the capabilities key.

Settings

The tap-nasa settings that are known to Meltano are documented below. To quickly find the setting you're looking for, click on any setting name from the list:

You can also list these settings using 

meltano config
with the list subcommand: 

meltano config tap-nasa list

You can override these settings or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the settings key.

Please consider adding any settings you have defined locally to this definition on MeltanoHub by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the settings for this plugin.

Airbyte Config Api Key (airbyte_config.api_key)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_API_KEY

API access key used to retrieve data from the NASA APOD API.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set airbyte_config api_key [value]

Airbyte Config Concept Tags (airbyte_config.concept_tags)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_CONCEPT_TAGS

Indicates whether concept tags should be returned with the rest of the response. The concept tags are not necessarily included in the explanation, but rather derived from common search tags that are associated with the description text. (Better than just pure text search.) Defaults to False.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set airbyte_config concept_tags [value]

Airbyte Config Count (airbyte_config.count)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_COUNT

A positive integer, no greater than 100. If this is specified then count randomly chosen images will be returned in a JSON array. Cannot be used in conjunction with date or start_date and end_date.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set airbyte_config count [value]

Airbyte Config End Date (airbyte_config.end_date)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_END_DATE

Indicates that end of a date range. If start_date is specified without an end_date then end_date defaults to the current date.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set airbyte_config end_date [value]

Airbyte Config Start Date (airbyte_config.start_date)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_START_DATE

Indicates the start of a date range. All images in the range from start_date to end_date will be returned in a JSON array. Must be after 1995-06-16, the first day an APOD picture was posted. There are no images for tomorrow available through this API.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set airbyte_config start_date [value]

Airbyte Config Thumbs (airbyte_config.thumbs)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_THUMBS

Indicates whether the API should return a thumbnail image URL for video files. If set to True, the API returns URL of video thumbnail. If an APOD is not a video, this parameter is ignored.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set airbyte_config thumbs [value]

Airbyte Spec Image (airbyte_spec.image)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_AIRBYTE_SPEC_IMAGE
  • Default Value: airbyte/source-nasa

Airbyte image to run


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set airbyte_spec image [value]

Airbyte Spec Tag (airbyte_spec.tag)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_AIRBYTE_SPEC_TAG
  • Default Value: latest

Airbyte image tag


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set airbyte_spec tag [value]

Docker Mounts (docker_mounts)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_DOCKER_MOUNTS

Docker mounts to make available to the Airbyte container. Expects a list of maps containing source, target, and type as is documented in the docker --mount documentation


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set docker_mounts [value]
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Flattening Enabled (flattening_enabled)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_FLATTENING_ENABLED

'True' to enable schema flattening and automatically expand nested properties.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set flattening_enabled [value]

Flattening Max Depth (flattening_max_depth)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_FLATTENING_MAX_DEPTH

The max depth to flatten schemas.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set flattening_max_depth [value]

Stream Map Config (stream_map_config)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_STREAM_MAP_CONFIG

User-defined config values to be used within map expressions.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set stream_map_config [value]

Stream Maps (stream_maps)

  • Environment variable: TAP_NASA_STREAM_MAPS

Config object for stream maps capability. For more information check out Stream Maps.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-nasa set stream_maps [value]

Something missing?

This page is generated from a YAML file that you can contribute changes to.

Edit it on GitHub!

Looking for help?

If you're having trouble getting the tap-nasa extractor to work, read the Airbyte connector FAQ, look for an existing issue in the Airbyte repository, file a new issue, or join the Meltano Slack community and ask for help in the 
#plugins-general
channel.

Install

meltano add extractor tap-nasa

Maintenance Status

  • Maintenance Status
  • Built with the Meltano SDK
  • Based on an Airbyte Connector

Repo

https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/tree/master/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-nasa
  • Last Commit Date
  • License

Maintainer

  • Airbyte

Keywords

  • airbyte_protocolmeltano_sdk