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Full documentation for the Skylight GraphQL API can be found here: http://api.skylight.earth/schema/query.doc.html
Getting Started
Download and install Postman
Download and open the sample file
Running the Query
After opening Postman, click on Collections and import the *.postman_collection.json. You will see the GraphQL collection added to the list. Note, you will need to have a GraphQL environment set up in Postman for the variables to pass automatically.
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Query Break Down
For each query, the value for the {{base_url}} is https://api.skylight.earth
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You will see a Postman query for "events" below. This query can be used to return all event types, although in our example we will be returning only Dark and Standard Rendezvous.
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Input Fields
For our example we will run a query that returns Dark Rendezvous and Standard Rendezvous events between April 1, 2022 and April 2, 2022. The results will be limited to only 1 page where each page returns 5 events. The following arguments are used to filter the results:
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One of the arguments used in the sample query is eventType. This filter is a list that contains a pre-defined value. Since we want to get a list of Dark Rendezvous and Standard Rendezvous events, we need to look at eventTypes to see the value assigned for this object. You will see “dark_rendezvous” and “standard_rendezvous” are the two values we need for our query.
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Output Fields
With GraphQL you can select from all fields which need to be returned. For this query example we want this information:
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Running the query gives a response similar to the below:
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Event Type Specific Response
Response fields in Event and EventDetails might be tied to a specific event type hence it will only return a result when your arguments is containing that event. Below is the matrix of fields:
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