Accessing Data

Use urllib.request.urlopen() function inorder to open the API url and json.loads(.read()) function to read the data from the url.

Output:

{'people': [{'name': 'Mark Vande Hei', 'craft': 'ISS'},
  {'name': 'Oleg Novitskiy', 'craft': 'ISS'},
  {'name': 'Pyotr Dubrov', 'craft': 'ISS'},
  {'name': 'Thomas Pesquet', 'craft': 'ISS'},
  {'name': 'Megan McArthur', 'craft': 'ISS'},
  {'name': 'Shane Kimbrough', 'craft': 'ISS'},
  {'name': 'Akihiko Hoshide', 'craft': 'ISS'},
  {'name': 'Nie Haisheng', 'craft': 'Tiangong'},
  {'name': 'Liu Boming', 'craft': 'Tiangong'},
  {'name': 'Tang Hongbo', 'craft': 'Tiangong'}],
 'number': 10,
 'message': 'success'}

Create.txt file for astronauts info: Create iss.text file using an open() function in write mode and write the result(names & numbers of astronauts) as data inside the file.

In this article, we will discuss how to track the current location of ISS(International Space Station) and then maps the location. We will write a script that will display the current location of ISS along with onboarded crew names. It works on API, it takes the current location of ISS in the form of latitude and longitude and then locates that value onto the map. It takes the value from the website at every 5 sec and then updates the value of latitude and longitude and thus also moves the ISS icon on the world map. The movement visible is very little but you can notice that movement in the gif below. This is possible by using some of the modules of python like JSON, urllib.requests, Webbrowser, Geocoder etc. Numerous functions are used to create this script.