About This API
API Selected: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
Why I selected it: I chose NASA's APOD API because it provides cute astronomical images with detailed explanations. It perfectly demonstrates how APIs can do so many random things and get images by specifying different dates makes it perfect for your "random image on click" requirement.
Source: https://api.nasa.gov/
API Parameters Used:
- api_key: I generated my own thats required for authentication
- date: Randomly generated dates between 1995-06-16 (when APOD started) & today
How It Works:
Each click makes the application generates a random date and fetches the APOD for that specific date from NASA's API.
Example Use Cases:
- Instagram robots, generate picstures for instagram pages to get followers
- Educational websites, teachers share with their students
- Wallpaper apps, developers can create apps that set NASA images as desktop/mobile wallpapers
- Web apps, astronomy enthusiasts can build apps that showcase different space images each day
- Digital msuem, museums, planetariums, or science centers show rotating space imagery, eg Museum of Science Boston
- Newspaper, science journalists can embed relevant astronomical images in their articles