Add NASA

Author: Tania Allard

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 
 \.DS_Store
+config.yml
 
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
 __pycache__/

session5/CFG_app/app.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from flask import Flask, render_template, request, redirect, session
 from helpers.twitter import authenticate, collect_tweets, get_config
 from helpers.spotify import  authorize_spotify, spotify_search, get_auth
+from helpers.NASA import get_APOD
 
 import requests
 
@@ -81,6 +82,28 @@ def spotify_search_app():
 
     return render_template('spotify_show.html', data = data, query = query, search_type = search_type)
 
+
+# -------------- Functions and decorators for NASA API queries --------------
+
+@app.route("/NASA")
+def NASA_handler():
+    """ This will only take you to the NASA search page"""
+
+    return render_template("NASA.html")
+
+
+@app.route("/NASA_search", methods = ['POST'])
+def NASA_search_app():
+    """When the search is submitted from the previous page,
+    this function passes the form data to our python scripts
+    and uses them to perform the query. It will then return the tweets
+    and display them in /tweets_show"""
+    date = request.form['date']
+    APOD = get_APOD(date)
+
+    return render_template('NASA_show.html', apod = APOD, date = date)
+
+
 # "debug=True" causes Flask to automatically refresh upon any changes you
 # make to this file.
 app.run(debug=True)

session5/CFG_app/helpers/NASA.py

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import requests
+
+def get_APOD(date):
+    """This will do the request on the NASA api"""
+    payload = 'https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod'
+    params = {'api_key' : 'DEMO_KEY',
+              'date' : date}
+
+    response = requests.get(payload, params = params)
+    return response.json()