Add script to import satellites from amsat

data/satdata/scripts/add-amsat.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+#
+# Add satellites from AMSAT website that were not in the Celestrak database
+# 
+import os
+import string
+import urllib
+
+
+webfile = 'https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt'
+localfile = './in/amsat.txt'
+print 'Fetching ' + webfile + ' => ' + localfile
+urllib.urlretrieve (webfile, localfile)
+
+tlefile = open(localfile, 'r')
+catfile = open('./out/amateur.cat', 'a')
+datfile = open('./out/satellites.dat', 'a')
+
+while 1:
+    # read three lines at a time; strip trailing whitespaces
+    line1 = tlefile.readline().strip()
+    if not line1: break
+    line2 = tlefile.readline().strip()
+    line3 = tlefile.readline().strip()
+
+    # catalog number; strip leading zeroes
+    catnum = line2[2:7].lstrip('0')
+
+    satfilename = './tmp/' + catnum + '.sat'
+    if os.path.isfile(satfilename): continue
+
+    print " Adding " + catnum + " ..."
+
+    catfile.write(catnum+'\n')
+
+    datfile.write("\n["+catnum+"]\n")
+    datfile.write('VERSION=1.1\n')
+    datfile.write('NAME='+line1+'\n')
+    datfile.write('NICKNAME='+line1+'\n')
+    datfile.write('TLE1='+line2+'\n')
+    datfile.write('TLE2='+line3+'\n')
+
+tlefile.close()
+catfile.close()
+datfile.close()