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A Python API for OTTER - Published in JOSS (2026)

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OTTER API

Open mulTiwavelength Transient Event Repository

A Python API for the OTTER.

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Installation

To install the OTTER API use python3 -m pip install astro-otter

Developer Instructions

  1. Set the OTTER_ROOT environment variable export OTTER_ROOT=/path/to/where/to/clone
  2. Clone the relevant repos: git clone https://github.com/astro-otter/otter.git $OTTER_ROOT/otter git clone https://github.com/astro-otter/otterdb.git $OTTER_ROOT/otterdb git clone https://github.com/astro-otter/otter-web.git $OTTER_ROOT/otter-web
  3. Install the NASA ADS Python API by following the instructions at https://ads.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#getting-started
  4. Install otter, the API for this database. From the root directory where you installed these repos: cd $OTTER_ROOT/otter python -m pip install -e .
  5. Process the data to build the local copy of the database. Follow the instructions in the otterdb repo README.
  6. Easily access the data using the Otter code! In python: import os from otter import Otter otter = Otter(os.path.join(os.environ['OTTER_ROOT'], 'otterdb', '.otter')) res = otter.query(names='AT2018hyz') print(res)

Installation from Source

To install the OTTER API from the source code use git clone https://github.com/astro-otter/otter.git cd otter python -m pip install . This will be changed into the more convenient python -m pip install astro-otter at a later date!

For developers, please also enable the pre-commit hooks using pre-commit install

Repo Organization

| Directory | Contents | |------------|------------| | src/otter | A pip installable API for interfacing with the OTTER database| | scripts | The pipeline scripts for converting unprocessed data into the OTTER JSON format| | docs | Documentation for the OTTER API | | test | Some Unit tests for the source code |

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JOSS Publication

A Python API for OTTER
Published
February 03, 2026
DOI
Volume 11, Issue 118, Page 9516
Authors
Noah Franz ORCID
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721-0065, USA
Kate D. Alexander ORCID
Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721-0065, USA
Sebastian Gomez ORCID
Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, 2515 Speedway, Stop C1400, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Editor
Warrick Ball ORCID
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