Cannot install earthadata download - please provide script recipe for downloading batch

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Cannot install earthadata download - please provide script recipe for downloading batch

by lukevalin » Mon Jun 22, 2026 2:10 pm America/New_York

I cannot install earthdata download on to my computer. There are no other batch options listed to download more than 4000 files from my Harmony web-interface request. Do I need to generate a unix-based script myself or is there one posted? I performed multiple searches and couldnt find any. GDAL and a bash request using the provided STAC links did not easily work, but I am unfamiliar with STAC as a starting poiont.
by lukevalin » Tue Jun 23, 2026 5:21 pm America/New_York
I don't use python typically, so I haven't tried that. I recall that there used to be curl or wget recipes to download files on this landing page, but I believe it was for original, unprocessed files. Perhaps this is no longer possible.
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Re: Cannot install earthadata download - please provide script recipe for downloading batch

by OB.DAAC-EDL - amscott » Mon Jun 22, 2026 3:43 pm America/New_York

"There are no other batch options listed to download more than 4000 files from my Harmony web-interface request."
- Can you submit multiple requests for data? Restrictions like this are put into place to improve performance on databases to handle multiple user requests.

Have you tried earthaccess, which shows you how to access your data using python?

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Re: Cannot install earthadata download - please provide script recipe for downloading batch

by OB.DAAC - amscott » Tue Jun 23, 2026 5:30 pm America/New_York

Here is a CMR STAC resource that might help.

To answer your question - I think people use these resources as a starting point, but then build onto them/write additional code to handle the details of their particular use case.

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