A Python client for the ATLAS API

Journal article

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) is an all-sky optical sky survey with a cadence of 24 to 48 hours (Tonry et al., 2018), and the ATLAS Transient Server (Smith et al., 2020) processes the alert stream to enable the discovery and follow-up of extra-galactic transients. The data from the ATLAS server can be accessed through a REST API, which has allowed the development of bots that need direct access to the data to help rank alerts and trigger follow-up observations of promising targets. Here we present the Python client we have developed for the ATLAS API to help connect bots and scientists to our data.

Authors: Stevance, HF; Leland, J; Smith, KW

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Open Journals
• Journal: The Journal of Open Source Software
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 119
• Pages: 9462-9462
• Publication date: 2026-03-05
• DOI: 10.21105/joss.09462
• EISSN: 2475-9066
• ISSN: 2475-9066
• Language: English
• Keywords: JSON; Sky; Python (programming language); Server; Atlas (anatomy)