NASA Commands not working

[jb3]

Description

API for NASA seems to be offline/have disappeared.

Steps to Reproduce

Use any of the commands under .space.

Expected Behaviour

Nice pictures from space.

Actual Behaviour

Not nice traceback in logs (either Heroku 404s or 504s).

sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot 2025-11-10 00:21:12 | ERROR | bot.exts.core.error_handler | Unhandled command error: 504, message='Attempt to decode JSON with unexpected mimetype: text/plain; charset=utf-8', url='https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=[redacted]'
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot Traceback (most recent call last):
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot   File "/build/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/discord/ext/commands/core.py", line 266, in wrapped
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot     ret = await coro(*args, **kwargs)
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot   File "/bot/bot/exts/fun/space.py", line 78, in apod
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot     result = await self.fetch_from_nasa("planetary/apod", params)
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot   File "/bot/bot/exts/fun/space.py", line 218, in fetch_from_nasa
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot     return await resp.json()
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot   File "/build/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/aiohttp/client_reqrep.py", line 756, in json
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot     raise ContentTypeError(
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot     ...<7 lines>...
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot     )
sir-lancebot-8dd9c4579-8cntf sir-lancebot aiohttp.client_exceptions.ContentTypeError: 504, message='Attempt to decode JSON with unexpected mimetype: text/plain; charset=utf-8', url='https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=[redacted]'

Known Impacted Platforms

• [x] Web
• [x] Desktop
• [x] Android App
• [x] iOS App

Possible Solutions

Confirm this API still exists or update to new methods of calling.

Would you like to implement a fix?

Note: For high-priority or critical bugs, fixes may be implemented by staff.

• [ ] I'd like to implement the bug fix
• [x] Anyone can implement the bug fix

[onerandomusername]

🌟 🚀 Government shutdown 🌟 🚀

[mhaxanali]

are these the APIs that were being used?