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I’m building an arduino based ISS-lamp .. you’ve probably heard of the original..
I wan’t to do a complete writeup after it’s done, but at the moment i’m having trouble getting non-visible passes out of the uhaapi.. I tried adding &visible=all to the end of my call, but it doesn’t seem to do anything.. any hints?
The API does not currently support retrieval of all pass information. This is a side-effect of the way Heavens Above organizes their data and requires making some strange POST requests which I haven’t reverse engineered yet. I will hopefully have some time this weekend that I could do a little more digging.
I used to scrape heavens-above directly to turn on a lamp (x10).
I thought it would be “simple” to use uhaapi json. I’m not a perl
programmer, but I hack away. I’ve spent two days trying to parse the json to put in mysql.. any pointers for parsing would be appreciated.
.. I’ve googled and googled. closest I can do is: $json->{‘results’}->[0]->{‘max’}->{‘alt’}, but that is NOT the way to parse.
I am assuming you are having trouble getting from ‘{id:12345,results[...]}’ to some kind of object you can work with in perl. There are a few options for handling perl in JSON:
-https://github.com/mnunberg/perl-JSON-SL
-http://search.cpan.org/search?query=JSON
If this doesn’t help and I misunderstand don’t hesitate to reach out to me via the email link in the left sidebar and I can give you more of a hand.
I’m building an arduino based ISS-lamp .. you’ve probably heard of the original..
I wan’t to do a complete writeup after it’s done, but at the moment i’m having trouble getting non-visible passes out of the uhaapi.. I tried adding &visible=all to the end of my call, but it doesn’t seem to do anything.. any hints?
The API does not currently support retrieval of all pass information. This is a side-effect of the way Heavens Above organizes their data and requires making some strange POST requests which I haven’t reverse engineered yet. I will hopefully have some time this weekend that I could do a little more digging.
I used to scrape heavens-above directly to turn on a lamp (x10).
I thought it would be “simple” to use uhaapi json. I’m not a perl
programmer, but I hack away. I’ve spent two days trying to parse the json to put in mysql.. any pointers for parsing would be appreciated.
.. I’ve googled and googled. closest I can do is: $json->{‘results’}->[0]->{‘max’}->{‘alt’}, but that is NOT the way to parse.
Thanks
I am assuming you are having trouble getting from ‘{id:12345,results[...]}’ to some kind of object you can work with in perl. There are a few options for handling perl in JSON:
-https://github.com/mnunberg/perl-JSON-SL
-http://search.cpan.org/search?query=JSON
If this doesn’t help and I misunderstand don’t hesitate to reach out to me via the email link in the left sidebar and I can give you more of a hand.