WebServices for Astrobin's API REST

Table of contents

• Requirements
• Introduction
• Installing
  • Usage
• WebServices
  • GetImage
  • GetTodayImage
  • GetCollection
  • GetUser
• Responses
  • Image
  • ListImage
  • Collection
  • ListCollection
  • Today
  • User
• Running the tests
• Contributes
• Bugs and issues
• Authors
• Licence

Version 2.6.2

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 min or superior (oldest versions are no longer supported)
• API Key and API Secret from Astrobin

Introduction

Astrobin's WebServices is a PHP library for request Astrobin's API Rest and get amazing astrophotographies hosted on Astrobin. Please read API section in "Terms of service"

Installing

You can install this package in 2 different ways.

• Basic installation; just install package from composer :

composer require hamhamfonfon/astrobin-ws

Update to the newest version :

composer update hamhamfonfon/astrobin-ws

If you're using old PHP versions:

• PHP 8.1

composer require hamhamfonfon/astrobin-ws:2.5

• PHP 7.4 | 8.0

composer require hamhamfonfon/astrobin-ws:2.4

• PHP 7.3

composer require hamhamfonfon/astrobin-ws:2.3

Caution, these versions are not maintained anymore. Only 2.6.* will be maintained and will have new features.

• If you just want to make some issues, make some simple tests etc, juste clone the repository

git clone [email protected]:HamHamFonFon/Astrobin-Webservices.git

Usage

First, set your keys in .env file :

ASTROBIN_API_KEY=PutHereYourOwnApiKey
ASTROBIN_API_SECRET=PutHereYourOwnApiSecret

Example without framework:

# Get variables
$astrobinApiKey = getenv('ASTROBIN_API_KEY');
$astrobinApiSecret = getenv('ASTROBIN_API_SECRET');

# Get data from Astrobin
$imageWs = new GetImage($astrobinApiKey, $astrobinApiSecret);
$astrobinImage = $imageWs->getById('astrobinImageId');

Example with Symfony:

parameters:
   astrobinApiKey: '%env(ASTROBIN_API_KEY)%'
   astrobinApiSecret: '%env(ASTROBIN_API_SECRET)%'
   
   # default configuration for services in *this* file
   _defaults:
      autowire: true      # Automatically injects dependencies in your services.
      autoconfigure: true # Automatically registers your services as commands, event subscribers, etc.
      bind:
         $astrobinApiKey: '%astrobinApiKey%'
         $astrobinApiSecret: '%astrobinApiSecret%'    

use AstrobinWs\Response\DTO\AstrobinResponse;use AstrobinWs\Services\GetImage;

final class MyImageService
{
    private GetImage $astrobinImage;

    /**
     * MyImageService constructor.
     * @param string|null $astrobinApiKey
     * @param string|null $astrobinApiSecret
    */
    public function __construct(?string $astrobinApiKey, ?string $astrobinApiSecret)
    {
        $this->astrobinImage = new GetImage($astrobinApiKey, $astrobinApiSecret);
    }
    
    public function getImageById(): ?AstrobinResponse
    {
        return $this->astrobinImage->getImageById('1234');
    }

    public function getOrionNebula(): ?AstrobinResponse
    {
        $orionNebula = $this->astrobinImage->getImagesBySubject('m42', 10);
        // ...
        return $orionNebula;
    }
    
    public function getImagesOfSiovene(): ?AstrobinResponse
    {
        $imagesBySiovene = $this->astrobinImage->getImagesByUser('siovene', 10);
        
        return $imagesBySiovene;
    }
    
    public function getImagesByManyFilters(): ?AstrobinResponse
    {
        $filters = [
            'user' => 'toto',
            'subjects' => 'm31',
            'description__icontains' => 'wind'
        ];

        $listImages = $this->astrobinImage->getImageBy($filters, 10);
        
        return $listImages;
    }
}

WebServices

The library expose 3 WebServices, each with these methods below.

GetImage :

Function name	Parameter	Response
getById()	$id	Image
getImageById()	$id	Image
getImagesBySubject()	$subjectId $limit	ListImage,Image
getImagesByTitle()	$title $limit	ListImage,Image
getImagesByDescription()	$description $limit	ListImage,Image
getImagesByUser()	$userName $limit	ListImage,Image
getImagesByRangeDate()	$dateFromStr (ex: 2018-04-01), $dateToStr (2018-04-31 or null)	ListImage,Image
getImageBy()	$filters $limit	ListImage,Image
getImageById() is an alias of getById() for version 1.0.0. retro-compatibility.

List of filters that can be used in getImageBy() :

Filter name	Comment
subjects	Used in getImagesBySubject() method, search by subject
user	Used in getImagesByUser() method, search by username
title__icontains	Used in getImagesByTitle() method, search by case-insensitive, partial title
description__icontains	Used in getImagesByDescription() method, search by case-insensitive, partial description
__startswith
__endswith
__contains
__istartswith
__iendswith

GetTodayImage :

Function name	Parameter	Response
getDayImage()	$offset , limit = 1	ListToday
getTodayImage()		Today

GetCollection :

Function name	Parameter	Response
getById()	$id	Collection
DEPRECATED getCollectionByUser()	$user,$limit	ListCollection

Parameter $limit is mandatory and must be an integer.

GetUser

Function name	Parameter	Response
getById()	$id	User
getByUername()	$username	User
/!\ For all webservices, parameter $id must be a string and not an integer or float.

Responses

Image

Parameter	Description
title	Title of image
subjects	Keywords
description	Description
url_gallery	URL of image for gallery
url_thumb	URL of image , thumb size
url_regular	URL of image
user	Username
url_histogram	URL to histogram
url_skyplot	URL to skyplot
url_solution
url_advanced_skyplot_small	URL to advanced skyplot
views	Count of views
likes	Count of likes

ListImage

Parameter	Description
listImages	List of images

Collection

Parameter	Description
id	Identifier
name	Name of collection
description	Description
user User name
date_created	Date of creation
date_updated	Date of modification
images	Path of WS Image

ListCollection

Parameter	Description
listCollection	List of collection with list of images

Today

Parameter	Description
date	Date of image (Y-m-d format)
image	instance of Image::class as today
resource_uri	URI of today image

User

Parameter	Description
id
username
avatar
about
image_count
job
hobbies
language
website

Contributes

I accept contributions, please fork the project and submit pull requests.

Bugs and issues

In case you find some bugs or have question about Astrobin-WebServices, open an issue and I will answer you as soon as possible.

Install package for debugging

Retrieve code-source

Clone repository from GitHub

git clone [email protected]:HamHamFonFon/Astrobin-WebServices.git

Run docker

Build, compile and up docker container

docker-compose build --no-cache
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -ti php_astrobin_ws bash

Installation

Install dependencies

composer install

Run Rector

# Init
./vendor/bin/rector init

# Run
./vendor/bin/rector process src --dry-run

Run PHP CodeSnifer

php ./vendor/bin/phpcs -p -n --standard=PSR12 src

Apply PHPCBF (fix and beautify PHPCS errors):

php ./vendor/bin/phpcbf src/path/to/file.php

Authors

Stéphane Méaudre - [email protected] - 2023

Licence

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Other versions

• VueJs version - In progress