Get image stamps via API

[genghisken]

Is it possible to request the image stamps via the API?

[lukeshingles]

See the email I've forwarded to you for the current state of this. We'll need more storage on the server before we can open this up more widely, but it seems like a good feature to have. As soon I get my kilonova paper submitted, I'll dedicate a week or two for adding features to the Atlas server.

[djbrout]

I would love this feature as well! Let me know if you need help to implement this.

[lukeshingles]

Reposting an answer that I sent by email here, for those interested in API access to images.

The server is not particularly smart about limiting the storage space occupied by these requests at the moment, so I ask that you send a delete command (same as the API Python example) on the image request tasks after you have downloaded their ZIP files, and not have too many completed image tasks on the server at once (say ~20).

For an existing forced photometry task, you can currently trigger downloading of images associated with a forced photometry task by sending a GET request to the task URL followed by 'requestimages', e.g.,

https://fallingstar-data.com/forcedphot/queue/217800/requestimages

When you access the photometry task (217800), you can find the details of this new image task in the imagerequest_task_id and imagerequest_url fields. The image request task will have a result_imagezip_url field for downloading the ZIP file.

It's also possible to create a new image request (not associated with a forced photometry task) in a similar way to a normal request, except that the request_type field should be set to 'IMGZIP'. Let me know if that doesn't work.

[lsmercadante]

I am trying to do this using the GET request using the task URL followed by 'requestimages' but I am getting an error: 403 Forbidden. I am including the normal headers (with the authorization token) in this request and I am trying to save the difference images as a zip file. Do you know how to get around this error?

[lukeshingles]

I am trying to do this using the GET request using the task URL followed by 'requestimages' but I am getting an error: 403 Forbidden. I am including the normal headers (with the authorization token) in this request and I am trying to save the difference images as a zip file. Do you know how to get around this error?

Thanks for the feedback. I've made a server-side change that should hopefully fix the problem. Can you let me know if it works for you?