NASA NEO V2 (Python)

Version 2 of my NEO Python program. Turned out that getting data out of a JSON with nested listed/dictionaries was not so easy but I’m getting there!

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#!/bin/python3

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#NASA NEO

#Big thanks to NASA API (https://api.nasa.gov/api.html), get your API key from this site.

import json, requests

#variables

api=””

start_date=””

end_date=””

result=””

potentially_hazardous=””

#message to welcome the user

print(‘Hi and welcome to GeekTechStuff\’s NASA Near Earth Object (NEO) Python program’)

print(‘This programme uses NASA\’s open API system’)

print(”)

#asks the users for dates, these must be in yyyy-mm-dd format

start_date=input(‘Please enter an eight digit date in yyyy-mm-dd format for the start date:’)

#end_date=input(‘Please enter an eight digit date in yyyy-mm-dd format for the end date:’)

end_date=start_date

#opens JSON file containing NEO data

response=requests.get(url)

response.raise_for_status()

neodata=json.loads(response.text)

nd=neodata[“near_earth_objects”]

nd2=nd[start_date]

print(‘Loading data from’,url)

print(”)

#uses the json loaded from get_json

print(nd2[0][‘neo_reference_id’])

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