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Landsat8 Metadata API

This small nodejs application creates an API for landsat metadata.

Dependencies: Elastic Search

Donwload and install the lastest version of elastic search zip from ES website

Installation

Install NodeJS, npm and forever (This is ONLY needed if you want to run the API engine)

$: sudo apt-get install nodejs ruby ruby1.9.1-dev npm -y
$: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
$: npm install

To run the api:

$: node api.js

To test the API run:

$: curl localhost:8000/landsat?search=LC81660362014196LGN00

To run the API in the background run:

$: forever start api.js

To list forever jobs:

$: forever list
info:    Forever processes running
data:        uid  command         script forever pid   logfile                        uptime
data:    [0] v0MM /usr/bin/nodejs api.js 19708   19710 /home/ubuntu/.forever/v0MM.log 0:0:5:46.387

To Kill the forever job:

$: forever stop 0

Config

The following environmental variables are available for customizing the API. If you add the variables to an .env file, they are loaded automatically when the app starts.

QUERY_LIMIT=100
COUNT_LIMIT=1000
PORT=8080
ES_HOST=localhost:9200
NODE_ENV=production
NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME=some_app
NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY=some_license
RESPONSE_HEADER_SERVER=api.developmentseed.org

Updating the metadata

Read more here

Credit

This is a fork of the excellent OpenFDA API: https://github.com/FDA/openfda/tree/master/api

To Do

• Add a documentation for the API