# ESA Gaia Archive TAP API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/esa/gaia-tap/  
**Provider:** European Space Agency (ESA) — https://apis.io/providers/esa/  
**Base URL:** https://gea.esac.esa.int/tap-server/tap  
**Documentation:** https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia-users/archive/programmatic-access

ESA Gaia Archive TAP API is one of 18 APIs that [European Space Agency (ESA)](https://apis.io/providers/esa/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Astronomy, GAIA, TAP, Stellar Catalogue, and Astrometry. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Table Access Protocol (TAP) service for the ESA Gaia stellar catalogue, the most precise astrometric survey of the Milky Way. Enables ADQL (Astronomical Data Query Language) queries against Gaia Data Releases covering positions, parallaxes, proper motions, photometry, and radial velocities for over a billion stars. Accessible programmatically via the astroquery Python library.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia-users/archive/programmatic-access

## Other European Space Agency (ESA) APIs (12)

- [Copernicus Data Space OData Catalogue API](https://apis.io/apis/esa/copernicus-odata/)
- [Copernicus Sentinel Hub API](https://apis.io/apis/esa/copernicus-sentinel-hub/)
- [Copernicus openEO API](https://apis.io/apis/esa/copernicus-openeo/)
- [Copernicus OGC API (WMS/WMTS/WFS/WCS)](https://apis.io/apis/esa/copernicus-ogc/)
- [Copernicus On-Demand Processing (ODP) API](https://apis.io/apis/esa/copernicus-on-demand-processing/)
- [ESA Space Weather HAPI Server](https://apis.io/apis/esa/space-weather-hapi/)
- [ESASky Legacy TAP Service](https://apis.io/apis/esa/esasky-legacy-tap/)
- [ESA Datalabs GraphQL API](https://apis.io/apis/esa/datalabs-graphql/)
- [ESA CCI ESGF RESTful API](https://apis.io/apis/esa/cci-esgf/)
- [European Space Agency (ESA) Bulk Transaction Extension API](https://apis.io/apis/esa/esa-bulk-transaction-extension-api/)
- [European Space Agency (ESA) Collections API](https://apis.io/apis/esa/esa-collections-api/)
- [European Space Agency (ESA) Conformance API](https://apis.io/apis/esa/esa-conformance-api/)

## Tags

Astronomy, GAIA, TAP, Stellar Catalogue, Astrometry

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