Script to open on the web browser the latest image of Earth taken by NASA/DSCOVR's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera.

latest_dscovr.py

"""
    Copyright (C) <2018>  <Ericson Willians>

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.
"""

import sys
import os
import urllib.request
import json
import dateutil.parser

def open_url(url):
    if sys.platform == "win32":
        os.startfile(url)
    elif sys.platform == "darwin":
        subprocess.Popen(['open', url])
    else:
        try:
            subprocess.Popen(["xdg-open", url])
        except OSError:
            print('Please open a browser on: ' + url)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    api_key = "fabLflcbOsvl87dvvxls87Tx2qFk3fMaQMbxk7li"
    get_request = "https://api.nasa.gov/EPIC/api/natural?api_key=" + api_key
    data = json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(get_request).read())[0]
    date = dateutil.parser.parse(data["date"])
    image = data["image"]
    fix_0_variance = lambda x: '0' + str(x) if x < 10 else str(x)
    url = "https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/natural/" + str(date.year) + "/" + fix_0_variance(date.month) + "/" + fix_0_variance(date.day) + "/png/" + image + ".png"
    open_url(url)