NASA Image and Video Library
planned Executive · Tier 2 · API · Independent agency
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What this source is
NASA's consolidated media library and API (images-api.nasa.gov): current mission imagery, video, and audio with titles, descriptions, keywords, and per-asset manifests offering original/medium/small renditions plus caption files for video. A continuous news-flow of new visual assets alongside the historical archive.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
nasa-image-library- Agency / parent organization
- Independent agency
- Branch
- executive
- Type
- API
- Status
- planned
- Tier
- 2
- URL (home)
- https://images.nasa.gov (opens in a new tab)
- URL (index)
- https://images-api.nasa.gov/search (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2026-07-28
- Registry notes
- API spec PDF (v1.22.0) fetched 2026-07-28: /search, /asset/{nasa_id}, /metadata, /captions endpoints; keyless; Collection+JSON. Second multi-modal source after DVIDS proves the schema path — weaker on every axis (no since-filter, no structured credit/branch apparatus, slower news cadence) but documented and open. NASA media guidelines: generally not copyrighted, no-endorsement rule.
How we ingest it
- Channel
- API
- Method
- Would search date-windowed (no changed-since filter documented; client-side dedupe), fetching asset manifests for selected items.
- Request budget
- the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)
- Politeness
- robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded
- Capture and hash
- captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)
Ingestion health
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned.
Ingestion statistics
These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is planned. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only.
All time
No requests to images-api.nasa.gov are recorded in the request log.
Last 30 days, day by day
No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.