machuga / iss-tracker-webtask

A little webtask endpoint to track ISS sightings in my area

ISS Tracker Webtask

Space is awesome, and I enjoy spotting the International Space Station. As such, I spend time on SpotTheStation tracking it so that my family and I can catch a glimpse of it. The site is lovely, but slow and sometimes 500's for us.

I noticed that it has an XML option for my area, so I wrote this script to fetch the XML file no more than once per day and return the listings to me as JSON. I'm then adding a front end in Elm (because why not?) to consume and format the data quickly. That app will simply be a static asset on github.io or on my personal site.

To Develop Locally

Make sure you're using node 4.8.4 to be compatible with the wt environment.

1. npm -g install wt-cli
2. Clone repo
3. Run yarn install
4. Run yarn serve:wt to serve locally
5. Visit the path given to view the endpoint
6. Run yarn publish to bundle and ship the package to webtask.io