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atelParser








scrape and parse content of ATels posted on The Astronomer's Telegram website, identify individual objects by name and coordinates.

Documentation for atelParser is hosted by Read the Docs (last stable version and latest version). The code lives on github. Please report any issues you find here.

Features

  • Report the latest ATel count
  • Download all ATel as raw HTML pages. After a first download, can be run on a regular basis to download only new/missing ATels.
  • Parse ATels to extract coordinates and transient source names to indexed MySQL database tables which can then be used in your own projects.

How to cite atelParser

If you use atelParser in your work, please cite using the following BibTeX entry:

@software{Young_atelParser,
    author = {Young, David R.},
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.8037457},
    license = {GPL-3.0-only},
    title = {{atelParser. Scrape and parse content of ATels posted on The Astronomer's Telegram website}},
    url = {https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8037457}
}