A Python tool for retrieving galaxy info from the NASA Extragalactic Database.
Now Python 3 compatible!
Run without any commands for basic usage help::
python NEDscrape.py
NEDscrape.py version: 3.1 04/06/2021
A program to grab galaxy data from the NED server.
Normal usage example: python NEDscrape.py -f names.txt -n outFile -o /Users/me/ -m -v
-f is a text file of names of objects, one per line, for which data will be retrieved
-n is the name of the csv file that will be created and the NED data written to
-o is the full pathname describing where the file should be saved
-m tells it to use multithreading to speed up data retrieval. Not for large queries!
-v tells it to run verbosely