Building a NASA Satellite Imagery SMS Bot with Python, Flask, and Twilio
Blog post from Twilio
The project involves using Twilio Programmable SMS with Python and Flask to build a bot that accepts a text message containing a location, country code, and date, and responds with a satellite image for that time and location via NASA's Earth APIs. The bot uses the HERE Location Services API for forward geocoding and the NASA API to obtain an image URI. The project requires creating a Flask application, setting up Twilio and Ngrok, and implementing functions to parse and validate the incoming message, geocode the location, fetch the satellite image URI, and respond to the user with the image URL. The bot can be tested by sending a text message to the configured phone number, and it may take some experimentation to find dates that work for specific locations due to NASA's rate limits on demo keys.
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