Access STIX data products with APIs

1. Data query HTTP APIs

APIs:
http://datacenter.stix.i4ds.net/query/fits/START_UTC/STOP_UTC

http://datacenter.stix.i4ds.net/query/fits/START_UTC/STOP_UTC/PRODUCT_TYPE
Arguments

  • START_UTC and STOP_UTC

    • Data measurement start time and stop time.
    • Supported time formats:
      yyyy-dd-mmTHH:MM:SS, yyyyddmmHHMM, yyyydd, yyyyddmm, yyyy-dd, yyyy-dd-mm

  • PRODUCT_TYPE options:

    l0			 -  xray_l0_user,
l1			 -  xray_l1_user,
l2			 -  xray_l2_user,
l3			 -  xray_l3_user, 
spec			 -  spectrogram_user,

asp			 -  aspect, 
aspect			 -  aspect, 

lc			 -  ql_light_curves,
bkg			 -  ql_background, 
var			 -  ql_variance, 
ffl			 -  flareflag_location,
cal			 -  calibration_spectrum,
qlspec			 -  ql_spectrogram,

hkmin			 -  hk_mini,
hkmax			 - hk_maxi,
hk			 -  all housekeeping products,
ql			 -  all quicklook products,
sci			 -  all science products,
housekeeping		 -  the same as hk,
quicklook		 -   the same as quicklook,
science			 -  the same as sci

Responses are in JSON format. URLs to download the fits file will be given in the responses if data products are found.

Here are some examples:

An example of a query response:

[
{"url": http://datacenter.stix.i4ds.net/download/fits/filename/solo_L1_stix-ql-spectrogram_20200609T150837.fits",
"time_range_utc": ["2020-06-09T13:08:37.133", "2020-06-10T13:47:01.077"], 
"raw_file_id": "294",
"creation_time": {"$date": 1595430303641}
}]

2. Python APIs

Python APIs are under development. A preliminary version can be found at https://github.com/drhlxiao/STIX_Python_APIs