: Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble The APoD for 10/16/2018 : The sky is not the limit ☁️ Me : Pics or I don’t believe you Stranger 🙄 Based on the above conversation, I’m going to show you how to get NASA’s highly coveted (APoD) with 🌑 ⭐️ Astronomy Picture of the Day Standard Library If you’re not familiar with , we’re a serverless platform that enables (yes, ! Calling all PMs, designers, marketing teams, sales people, oh and engineers… 🙋) to build, ship, and integrate scalable APIs in a matter of seconds. With the help of our online text editor, , you can do all of this right from your browser. Standard Library everyone everyone Code.xyz Requirements account (free) Standard Library API key (free) NASA provides a plethora of API templates that are readily usable. In order to retrieve the APoD API template, go to and search for 💁 Standard Library Code.xyz astronomy-picture-of-the-day by @eileenzhong APoD template Name your API: Name your API One last step before sending the APoD to your phone! You’ll need to properly configure the file. You’ll notice that there are two sets of variables; however, we will be deploying our code to the environment, so we will only need to provide the variables. env.json dev dev First, insert your Standard Library library token ( ): STDLIB_LIBRARY_TOKEN Right click to access this context menu Then, insert your API key. When finished, your file should look like this: NASA env.json That’s all the setup you have to do! To run the program, click “Debug” to bring the parameter input area into view. Enter your phone number, including the country code: Don’t forget the country code! When you click “Run”, you’ll receive NASA’s astronomy picture of the day! 🚀 That’s not even the coolest part. We don’t want to click “Run” every single day to get this text delivered to our phone. Thankfully, has a task scheduler where you can customize a schedule to auto_magic_ally invoke your newly created API. Standard Library In , click the “Tasks” tab. You can then enter a phone number and customize a schedule to your liking: Code.xyz Create a scheduled task for your API Suggestion: schedule the task to execute once a day since APoD is an acronym for astronomy picture of the day , and hence, the picture won’t change throughout the day. When you’re happy with the settings, click the blue “Schedule Task” button to schedule your API. That’s it! If you know one ☝️, two ✌️, or five 🖐 other people who would appreciate a daily astronomy picture, you can schedule a different task (one for each phone number) for all of them. Bonus section If you’ve made it this far, you deserve a reward 🌈 Now, don’t get too excited (actually — do get excited 🙃). With just 2 more lines of code, you can send your friend a random quote along with the APoD! APoD and a random Paul Jacques Grillo quote We’ll be using WordPress’s API to pull a randomized quote: [http://quotesondesign.com/wp-json/posts?filter[orderby]=rand&filter[posts_per_page]=1](http://quotesondesign.com/wp-json/posts?filter[orderby]=rand&filter[posts_per_page]=1.) . Add lines and to send a random quote with the APoD text 11 12 Don’t worry about all the RegEx (regular expressions) sitting on line 12. The WordPress API just returns some HTML tags that won’t play nicely in an MMS 📱 Alternatively, you can just replace the value of the variable with any chunk of text you’d like to send your friend: quote const quote = "Hi friend." Enjoy!
