generated: '2026-08-26'
method: searched
source: >-
  Registry search across PyPI, npm (registry.npmjs.org), Maven Central, NuGet, pkg.go.dev,
  RubyGems, Packagist and crates.io, plus the GitHub org https://github.com/nearspacelabs and
  the current developer docs at https://docs.nearspacelabs.com. Version and publish dates read
  from https://pypi.org/pypi/nsl.stac/json on 2026-08-26.
description: >-
  Near Space Labs ships exactly one first-party client library, and it is stale. `nsl.stac` is a
  Python gRPC client for the company's SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) metadata service and
  GeoTIFF/thumbnail download surface. Its last release is 1.2.7 from 2023-09-07, its declared
  Homepage (github.com/nearspacelabs/stac-client-python) now returns 404 — the repository has been
  removed from the public GitHub org, which today contains only seven forks of third-party
  geospatial projects — and the gRPC host family it wrapped no longer resolves in DNS. The current
  documented product is the REST Tile Service on api.nearspacelabs.net, and NO first-party SDK
  exists for it in any registry: the docs teach it with raw `requests` / `fetch` / `curl` snippets
  and a Postman collection instead.
packages:
  - language: python
    registry: pypi
    name: nsl.stac
    url: https://pypi.org/project/nsl.stac/
    install: pip install nsl.stac
    official: true
    version: 1.2.7
    published: '2023-09-07'
    summary: gRPC Spatio Temporal Asset Catalog library
    source: https://github.com/nearspacelabs/stac-client-python
    source_status: 404
    wraps: >-
      The legacy Near Space Labs gRPC STAC metadata service and imagery download surface — NOT the
      current REST Tile Service documented at docs.nearspacelabs.com.
    note: >-
      Abandonment signal. Last release 2023-09-07, nearly three years before this probe; the
      declared Homepage 404s; the STAC gRPC endpoints it targets are gone. Treat as unmaintained.
  - language: python
    registry: pypi
    name: epl.protobuf
    url: https://pypi.org/project/epl.protobuf/
    install: pip install epl.protobuf
    official: false
    version: 0.4.12
    published: '2020-02-07'
    summary: generated protobufs for geometry and STAC
    source: https://github.com/geo-grpc/api
    note: >-
      A transitive dependency of nsl.stac carrying the generated STAC/geometry protobuf stubs.
      Published under the `geo-grpc` GitHub organization, NOT under nearspacelabs, so it is
      recorded here as third-party rather than first-party. Last release 2020-02-07.
absent:
  - registry: npm
    checked: ['@nearspacelabs/nsl-stac', 'nsl-stac']
    result: 404 — no first-party JavaScript/TypeScript SDK published.
  - registry: rubygems
    result: none found
  - registry: crates.io
    result: none found
  - registry: nuget
    result: none found
  - registry: maven-central
    result: none found
  - registry: pkg.go.dev
    result: none found
  - registry: packagist
    result: none found
current_rest_api_client_story: >-
  For the documented Tile Service and OAuth Service there is no SDK at all. The provider ships a
  public Postman collection (postman/near-space-labs-postman-collection.json, also served at
  https://docs.nearspacelabs.com/nsl_postman.json) and copy-paste Python/JavaScript/Bash examples
  on every docs page. That collection is the closest thing to a maintained client artifact.