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AstroBin IOTD

AstroBin implements a basic set of RESTful APIs. AstroBin's APIs currently are limited to retrieving basic information and perform simple searches on images. The supported response types are XML and JSON.

It also has RSS and Atom feeds but with less resolution images aboard.

Image-Of-The-Day Archive Page

https://www.astrobin.com/iotd/archive/

Contains several figure elements which contains image info. See next example:

...
    <figure>
        <a href="/pcdsqs/">
            <img src="https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/rS59lKRrZJEs_1000x380_Yd0PTaOB.jpg"
                data-preloaded="true" data-loaded="true" class="astrobin-image" width="1000" height="380"
                data-user-id="4135" data-id="943875" data-id-or-hash="pcdsqs" data-alias="iotd" data-revision="0"
                data-get-thumb-url="None" data-hires-loaded="false"
                alt="NGC 3521 - the Bubble Galaxy, Herbert Walter" />
        </a>
    </figure>
</div>
<div class="data hidden-phone">
    <h3>NGC 3521 - the Bubble Galaxy</h3>
    <p>
        08/09/2024,
        <a class="astrobin-username  astrobin-premium-member" title="Herbert Walter (Herbert_W): Premium member"
            href="/users/Herbert_W/">
            Herbert Walter
        </a>
    </p>

Full image URL

https://www.astrobin.com/full{FIGURE_HREF}0/

The key for a page with full image is <figure><a href=". Let's FIGURE_HREF = /pcdsqs/

So the result url is: https://www.astrobin.com/full/pcdsqs/0/

If there are revisions of image, the key FIGURE_HREF may has a predefined tail. For example: FIGURE_HREF = /pcdsqs/C/

Thus the link becomes: https://www.astrobin.com/full/pcdsqs/C/

Preview image + Title + Author

<figure>
    <a href="/pcdsqs/">
        <img
            src="https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/rS59lKRrZJEs_1000x380_Yd0PTaOB.jpg"
            alt="NGC 3521 - the Bubble Galaxy, Herbert Walter"
  • src is an url for small image.
  • alt attribute contains complex TITLE, AUTHOR. Where comma used as a delimiter but this is a weak condition.

Image title

<div class="data hidden-phone"><h3>THE TITLE</h3>

Publication date

<div class="data hidden-phone">
    ...
    <p>
        08/09/2024,

Author

<div class="data hidden-phone">
    ...
    <p>
        08/09/2024,
        <a class="astrobin-username  ">AUTHOR NAME</a>

Full Image Page

https://www.astrobin.com/full/pcdsqs/0/

<figure>
    <img src="https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/rS59lKRrZJEs_2560x0_esdlMP5Y.jpg"

The first figure element contains img element with src attribute that leads us to the downloadable full size image.

Video of the day

Sometime there are no image but video:

<figure>
    <video class="video...