RE: Does anyone have SpaceTrack scripts?

From: AjK (ajk@f2s.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2005 - 06:20:13 EST

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    > I would like to know if anyone has developed scripts that automatically 
    > log into the space-track.org web site, fill in the various fields, and  
    > returned orbit elements. Is everybody just doing it manually? Recall 
    > that Doyle Groves had written a Perl script that worked with OIG, but 
    > that used the telnet protocol, and I don't believe telent is an option 
    > with space-track.
    > 
    > Gene Heyler
    > Columbia MD
    
    Gene,
    
    Your correct, ST use a cookie login system rather than the Apache "Basic
    Auth" that was easy to mimic. You need to first get a valid cookie for
    your session before making further download requests. I have written a 
    VB script that can get data automatically from the ST site. Also, I
    wrote a small C program that can get the cookie and then be stored in
    a Netscape cookies.txt file format so that wget -O - | gunzip > file.tle
    can be used in the Unix world. You need to re-acquire a cookie as they
    only have a 2 hour life span.
    
    I have sent both scripts to Ted to include in his software download section
    but, failing that, if you need them contact me directly and I'll email the
    bundle to you.
    
    Regards
    Andy
    
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