Get Astronomy Photo of the Day from the NASE (need jq)

get_APOD.sh

start='2018-01-01'
end='2022-02-01'
key='your sevret key'   # see https://api.nasa.gov/ 

start=$(date -d $start +%Y%m%d)
end=$(date -d $end +%Y%m%d)

while [[ $start -le $end ]]
do
        curDate=$(date -d $start +%Y-%m-%d)
        echo $curDate
        curl "https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=$key&date=$curDate"
        wget `curl "https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=$key&date=$curDate" | jq .url | tr -d '"'`
        start=$(date -d"$start + 1 day" +"%Y%m%d")
        sleep 5

done

The goal is to download automatically all the picture of the APOD https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
You need to create an API key (free)
You need curl and jq (and a shell ...)