import requests import json import array import sys #Where we pull the data from. web_tle = [ 'http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/weather.txt', 'https://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/stations.txt' ] #celestrak uses a different key value than I do, find all instances of their keys and replace with mine. sats_of_interest = { 'NOAA-15':'NOAA 15', 'NOAA-18':'NOAA 18', 'NOAA-19':'NOAA 19'} #NOAA 15 [B] #1 25338U 98030A 16173.50363904 .00000079 00000-0 52195-4 0 9991 #2 25338 98.7825 177.6616 0010829 167.3279 192.8174 14.25734916941605 data = {} line_num = 0 cur_sat_line = -1 cur_sat = "" #This was originally intended to check that the data I was receiving was legitimate, very half-assed. def check_line1(str): if( len(str) == 69 ): fields = {} fields['line number'] = int(str[0:1]) fields['satellite number + classification'] = str[3:9] fields['international designator'] = str[10:17] fields['epoch'] = float(str[19:32]) fields['1st mean motion'] = float(str[34:43]) fields['2nd mean motion'] = str[45:52] fields['BSTAR drag term'] = str[54:61] fields['the number 0'] = int(str[62:63]) fields['element set number + checksum'] = int(str[65:69]) else: return False return True def check_line2(str): if( len(str) == 69 ): fields = {} fields['line number'] = str[0:1] fields['satellite number'] = str[3:7] fields['inclination'] = str[9:16] fields['right ascension'] = str[18:25] fields['eccentricity'] = str[27:33] fields['argument of perigee'] = str[35:42] fields['mean anomaly'] = str[44:51] fields['mean motion + revolution number + checksum'] = str[53:69] print fields return fields for field, data in fields.iteritems(): if( not float(data).isnum() ): print field, data, "is not an number!" return False else: return False return True for tle in web_tle: page = requests.get(tle, stream=True) for line in page.iter_lines(): #I don't actually remember why I made this var 'hsat' for hsat, sat in sats_of_interest.iteritems(): if( line.startswith(sat) ): cur_sat_line = line_num cur_sat = hsat #Enable this for data integrity check if you want. if( line_num == cur_sat_line + 1 and cur_sat_line >= 0 ): if( check_line1(line) ): data[cur_sat] = line # else: # sys.exit("Malformed Data (Line 1), Exiting. " + line) if( line_num == cur_sat_line + 2 and cur_sat_line >= 0 ): if( check_line2(line) ): data[cur_sat] = data[cur_sat] + '\n' + line # else: # sys.exit("Malformed Data (Line 2), Exiting. " + line) line_num = line_num + 1 for s, tle in data.iteritems(): print s, '\n', tle with open('sat_tle.txt', 'w') as fp: json.dump(data, fp)