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#!/usr/bin/python
from cookielib import CookieJar
from base64 import b64encode
from urllib import urlencode
from json import loads
from sys import argv, exit
import urllib2

# The user credentials that will be used to authenticate access to the data
username = "<Your Earthdata login username>"
password = "<Your Earthdata login password"
# The url of the file we wish to retrieve
url = "http://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MOLA/MYD17A3H.006/2009.01.01/MYD17A3H.A2009001.h12v05.006.2015198130546.hdf.xml"

# Create a password manager to deal with the 401 reponse that is returned from
# Earthdata Login
password_manager = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
password_manager.add_password(None, "https://urs.earthdata.nasa.gov", username, password)

# Create a cookie jar for storing cookies. This is used to store and return
# the session cookie given to use by the data server (otherwise it will just
# keep sending us back to Earthdata Login to authenticate).  Ideally, we
# should use a file based cookie jar to preserve cookies between runs. This
# will make it much more efficient.
cookie_jar = CookieJar()
# Install all the handlers.
opener = urllib2.build_opener(
    urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_manager),
    #urllib2.HTTPHandler(debuglevel=1),    # Uncomment these two lines to see
    #urllib2.HTTPSHandler(debuglevel=1),   # details of the requests/responses
    urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookie_jar))
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

# Create and submit the request. There are a wide range of exceptions that
# can be thrown here, including HTTPError and URLError. These should be
# caught and handled.
request = urllib2.Request(url)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)

# Print out the result (not a good idea with binary data!)
body = response.read()
print body

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