ISS-Tracker - Tracking the International Space Station

ISS Tracker is a python script to collect real-time information related to the International Space Station (ISS) just from your terminal. This script uses WTIA and Open Notify APIs to get the information related to ISS.

Information Provided

• Space station date & time.
• Visibility of the space station.
• Google Map URL for ISS Current Location.
• Number of people in space and their names.
• Automatically refresh data after every 60 seconds.
• ISS pass times (upcoming ISS passes for your country).
• Space station Latitude, Longitude, Altitude (Km), Velocity (Km\h), Footprint.

Git Installation

# clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/sameera-madushan/ISS-Tracker.git

# change the working directory to ISS-Tracker
$ cd ISS-Tracker

# install the requirements
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python tracker.py

Support & Contributions

• Please ⭐️ this repository if this project helped you!
• Contributions of any kind welcome!

License

ISS Tracker is made with ♥ by @__sa_miya__ and it is released under the MIT license.

Special Thanks

Devolopers of WTIA API and Open Notify API --> Used to get real-time information about the ISS.

Devolopers of REST Countries API --> Used to get capital of countries.

Devolopers of ident.me website and IP location finder API by keycdn --> Used to identify the country of the users based on their ip address.

Devolopers of Geocode.xyz API --> Used to get the cordinates of capitals using Forward Geocoding.