Quickstart

The easiest way to install lksearch and all of its dependencies is to use the pip command, which is a standard part of all Python distributions. (upon release)

To install lksearch, run the following command in a terminal window:

$ python -m pip install lksearch --upgrade

The --upgrade flag is optional, but recommended if you already have lksearch installed and want to upgrade to the latest version.

Depending on the specific Python environment, you may need to replace python with the correct Python interpreter, e.g., python3.

Search package for finding and retrieving TESS/Kepler/K2 mission data

This package is a stand-alone implementation of the lightkurve search functionalty. While this package shares many common features to the lightkurve.search module, it has many major changes, as described below.

Usage

from lksearch import MASTSearch, TESSSearch, KeplerSearch, K2Search
### Get long-cadence target pixel files for Kepler
res = search.KeplerSearch("KIC 11904151", exptime="long").cubedata
### Get TESScut cutouts for a particular target and sector
res = TESSSearch("TOI 2257").tesscut
res.download()