Autostar has evolved into https://github.com/HypatiaOrg/HySite/tree/main/backend/hypatia/sources
Autostar was too difficult to maintain as a gernallized tool that operted only with CSV files and Python that was both used by SpExoDisks.com and HypatiaCatalog.com. Each orgainiation now maintains it own tooling, and its own database, MySQL for SpExoDisks and MongoDB for HypatiaCatalog. We no long recommend wrting (CSV) files for intermidaiate database and processing steps, we now write everything to a single database that can house all intermidiate and final data products. This greately simpliifes the number of systems to learn and maintain administrative operations.
Read more in the SpExoDisks paper Database Design for SpExoDisks: A Database & Web Portal for Spectra of Exoplanet-Forming Disks PASP, arXiv
The Hypatia Codebase: https://github.com/HypatiaOrg/HySite The SpExoDisks Codebase: https://github.com/spexod/Portal
A group of functions written to query and record data from various astronomical websites.
It is meant to save the user's (and the queried website's) time by creating a local database and updating it with queries from other astronomy websites/databases.
This is an important step in making a script automatically updates any data.
It should be written to work with everything greater than Python 3.7, so treat yourself to the latest version of Python.
https://www.python.org/downloads/
python --version
To make sure you are using python 3.7 or greater. You me need python3 on you system. python3 --version
python -m venv venv
This way you can keep your system python clean and not have to worry about
what we install here. Just delete the venv folder when you are done. As
a bonus, after activation you can use python instead of python3 in the terminal.
source venv/bin/activate
venv\Scripts\activate.bat
pip install .
pip install autostar