Helioviewer API tools for multiple platforms now available

The Helioviewer Project maintains a set of public APIs with the goal of improving access to solar and
heliospheric datasets to scientists, educators, developers, and the general public. Helioviewer.org and JHelioviewer are two client applications that make use of the Helioviewer API. You can build your own. The API is fully described at our API documentation page. Examples of usage are also provided.

For easy access to API responses within your code, check out the open-source libraries available at Unirest.io. Libraries are provided for integration with Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, Objective-C, Node.js, .NET, and Windows 8 code bases.

The API is also available via Mashape – check it out here.

The combination of our API documentation page and the Unirest.io libraries puts solar and heliospheric image data in your hands so you can develop your own applications. If you have any questions regarding usage of the API, please send us an email at contact@helioviewer.org.

Written on March 4, 2014 by jack