NASA Open APIs

NASA Open APIs Asset API

The Asset API from NASA Open APIs — 3 operation(s) for asset.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 3

GET /asset/{nasa_id} Get Media Asset Manifest #
GET /metadata/{nasa_id} Get Media Asset Metadata #
GET /captions/{nasa_id} Get Video Asset Captions Location #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://api.nasa.gov/
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Documentation
https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/tools/DONKI/
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Documentation
https://eonet.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/v3
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Documentation
https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/api
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Documentation
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/TAP/usingTAP.html
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Documentation
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/
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Documentation
https://images.nasa.gov/docs/images.nasa.gov_api_docs.pdf
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Documentation
https://ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/
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Documentation
https://techport.nasa.gov/api
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Documentation
https://tle.ivanstanojevic.me/
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Documentation
https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/WebServices/REST/
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Documentation
https://genelab.nasa.gov/genelab-help/genelab-api
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Documentation
https://trek.nasa.gov/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasa-gov/refs/heads/main/openapi/nasa-gov-asset-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasa-gov/refs/heads/main/json-schema/apod-schema.json

Other Resources

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SourceCode
https://github.com/nasa/apod-api
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SourceCode
https://github.com/SpaceRocks/NeoWs
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SourceCode
https://github.com/chrisccerami/mars-photo-api
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SourceCode
https://github.com/nasa/NASA-Image-and-Video-Library
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Portal
https://technology.nasa.gov/

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OpenAPI Specification

nasa-gov-asset-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: NASA Image and Video Library Asset API
  description: 'API for the NASA Image and Video Library at images.nasa.gov. Supports searching the library, retrieving

    asset manifests, metadata, captions, and resolving rich-text URLs.

    '
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: NASA Image and Video Library
    url: https://images.nasa.gov/docs/images.nasa.gov_api_docs.pdf
  license:
    name: US Government Work (Public Domain)
servers:
- url: https://images-api.nasa.gov
tags:
- name: Asset
paths:
  /asset/{nasa_id}:
    get:
      summary: Get Media Asset Manifest
      operationId: getAsset
      tags:
      - Asset
      parameters:
      - name: nasa_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of asset file URLs (image variants, video renditions, captions).
  /metadata/{nasa_id}:
    get:
      summary: Get Media Asset Metadata
      operationId: getMetadata
      tags:
      - Asset
      parameters:
      - name: nasa_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Pointer to JSON metadata location for the asset.
  /captions/{nasa_id}:
    get:
      summary: Get Video Asset Captions Location
      operationId: getCaptions
      tags:
      - Asset
      parameters:
      - name: nasa_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Pointer to captions file (SRT/VTT) location for video assets.