The Astronomical Journal· 2019Q1
<tt>astroquery</tt>: An Astronomical Web-querying Package in Python
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Short summary
Astroquery is a new Python package designed to simplify data retrieval from astronomical databases, even those lacking formal APIs, by mimicking web page interfaces.
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Key points
- Simplifies data access from astronomical databases, including those without formal APIs.
- Mimics web page interfaces for easier command-line interaction.
- Built using Python's 'requests' and 'astropy' libraries.
- Facilitates reproducible research workflows from data acquisition to publication.
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Abstract
Astroquery is a collection of tools for requesting data from databases hosted on remote servers with interfaces exposed on the Internet, including those with web pages but without formal application program interfaces. These tools are built on the Python requests package, which is used to make HTTP requests, and astropy, which provides most of the data parsing functionality. astroquery modules generally attempt to replicate the web page interface provided by a given service as closely as possible, making the transition from browser-based to command-line interaction easy. astroquery has received significant contributions from throughout the astronomical community, including several from telescope archives. astroquery enables the creation of fully reproducible workflows from data acquisition through publication. This paper describes the philosophy, basic structure, and development model of the astroquery package. The complete documentation for astroquery can be found at http://astroquery.readthedocs.io/.
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Field: Instrumentation
InstrumentationPhysics and Astronomy