Service metadata

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/constellations-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/constellations-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/constellations-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/constellations-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "service": "constellations-api",
        "endpoints": {
            "GET /v1/list": "List all constellations (limit, offset).",
            "GET /v1/meta": "This document.",
            "GET /v1/point": "The constellation nearest a sky position (ra=0..360, dec=-90..90).",
            "GET /v1/search": "Search constellations by name in any language, abbreviation or genitive (q=).",
            "GET /v1/constellation": "Constellation by IAU abbreviation (abbr=, e.g. And) or name (name=, e.g. Andromeda)."
        },
        "description": "The 88 modern IAU constellations: IAU abbreviation, English name, Latin genitive, rank, approximate equatorial centre (RA/Dec) and the name in ~25 languages. Look up by abbreviation or name, search across languages, find the constellation nearest a sky position, or list them all. No key.",
        "total_constellations": 88
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-08T18:25:11.086Z",
        "request_id": "9e712c1f-ba9e-4f5b-b464-e324ad1efa57"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta",
    "success": true
}