IVOA Simple Image Access Extractor
Pricing
from $0.35 / 1,000 image records
Point at ANY IVOA Simple Image Access (SIA) service — IRSA, SkyView, GAVO, HEASARC, ESO, CADC and thousands of observatory image archives — and list every astronomical image over a sky region: give RA, Dec and a size, get one row per image with its access URL. One actor for the Virtual Observatory.
You can access the IVOA Simple Image Access Extractor programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "service": "https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/vo/sia.pl?SURVEY=DSS",10 "ra": "10.6847",11 "dec": "41.269",12 "size": "0.1",13 "maxRecords": 1000,14}15
16# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish17run = client.actor("datamule/ivoa-sia-image-access-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)18
19# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)20print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])21for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():22 print(item)23
24# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use IVOA Simple Image Access Extractor API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: