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/docs.

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 Galactic

Changelog 📝

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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 features

Showcase

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.