https://github.com/thespacedevs/spaceflightnewsapi

Spaceflight News API (SNAPI) enables developers to add the latest spaceflight news to their apps.
https://github.com/thespacedevs/spaceflightnewsapi

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Spaceflight News API (SNAPI) enables developers to add the latest spaceflight news to their apps.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/thespacedevs/spaceflightnewsapi
• Owner: TheSpaceDevs
• Created: 2018-08-29T08:38:19.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2026-01-29T20:24:07.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-01-30T04:38:26.347Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: api, api-rest, esa, nasa, news, newsapi, space, spaceflight, spacex, strapi, thespacedevs
• Language: CSS
• Homepage: https://spaceflightnewsapi.net
• Size: 10.9 MB
• Stars: 74
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 9
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • Security: SECURITY.md

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# Spaceflight News API

The Spaceflight News API was created as a solution for my problem when I wanted to develop an app for Spaceflight News:

many (great!) news sites with different APIs.

To make it easier for myself, I began a project that would aggregate metadata from those news sites and publish them

through an API. Since there are others that might benefit from this API, I decided make the API publicly available.

There are great apps out on the internet, that are connected to services like . By making this

API available to everyone, I hope to open new doors for the developers of these apps.

## Documentation 📖

The documentation is generated from the code, and can be found at .

## Evolution 📈

### Version 2

In July 2020, Launch Library 2.0 was released, within the new The Space Devs API

group. I've joined this group as a partner developer, and started finalizing SNAPI 2.0.

Version 2.0 of SNAPI is a rewrite of the entire API using Strapi as a backend, with custom endpoints written by me.

SNAPI 2 sets the stage for new features to come and focuses on bringing the existing features to the new format.

### Version 3

In the Spring of 2021, Strapi announced that they would retire support for MongoDB. Since SNAPI was using MongoDB as the

database, this had quite a big impact.

Version 3 of the API is exactly the same as version 2 (in terms of the response), except the IDs. These changed from

ObjectIDs (strings) to integers.

### Version 4

In 2023 SNAPI V4 launched, completely re-written in Python (Django) for various reasons.

Using proven libraries, this version is focussed on long-term stability and maintainability.

## Launch Library 2 integration 🚀

Starting from version 2, we now have Launch Library 2 API integration. This

way you can easily get news related to a specific launch.

A nice to have if you want to have a "related news/launches" section in your app!

## Currently imported news sites 🌐

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- AmericaSpace

- Arstechnica

- Blue Origin

- CNBC

- ESA

- ElonX

- Euronews

- European Spaceflight

- Jet Propulsion Laboratory

- NASA

- NASASpaceflight

- National Geographic

- National Space Society

- Phys

- Planetary Society

- Reuters

- Space.com

- SpaceFlight Insider

- SpaceNews

- SpacePolicyOnline.com

- SpaceX

- Spaceflight Now

- SyFy

- TechCrunch

- Teslarati

- The Drive

- The Japan Times

- The Launch Pad

- The National

- The New York Times

- The Space Devs

- The Space Review

- The Verge

- The Wall Street Journal

- United Launch Alliance

- Virgin Galactic

## Changelog 📝

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# V4.0.5

- Package updates

- Migrated to Python 3.12

# V4.0.0

- Rewritten in Python and Django.

# V3.4.0

- Package updates

- Sentry fixes

# V3.0.0

- Package updates

### V3.2.0

- Various Sentry issues fixed

### V3.1.0

- Strapi updates

- Sentry updates

- Admin interface updates

### V3.0.0

- Switch to use Postgres as database

### V2.3.0

- The lost "article per (LL2) event" endpoint is back

- Changed the G4L logo on the site

- Added Sentry again, via the new Strapi plugin

- Changed from amqplib to amqp-connection-manager

- Updated to Strapi 3.5.3

### v2.2.0

- Dependency updates

- Code cleanup

- Admin side of things

### v2.1.0

- Backend changes on how new content is processed

- Package updates

### v2.0.0

- Complete rewrite of the app, focusing on existing features

## Showcase

For a list of users, please visit the [users page](https://www.spaceflightnewsapi.net/users/).

On the [profile page](https://github.com/TheSpaceDevs#api-showcase---spaceflight-news-api-) of TheSpaceDevs

organisation, you'll also find a simple showcase of the API.