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GET /v1/meta

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api.oanor.com/stars-api

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/stars-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/stars-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/stars-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($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/stars-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

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

{
    "data": {
        "named": 465,
        "total": 9027,
        "fields": [
            "id",
            "name",
            "bayer",
            "constellation",
            "constellation_name",
            "magnitude",
            "abs_magnitude",
            "spectral_class",
            "distance_ly",
            "ra",
            "dec",
            "hip"
        ],
        "source": "HYG Database (named stars + all stars to magnitude 6.5)",
        "constellations": 88,
        "magnitude_limit": 6.5
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-31T02:18:48.393Z",
        "request_id": "2a5476b8-a4aa-4856-9707-592f97885562"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta retrieved",
    "success": true
}