When using cURL or Wget to access data over HTTP from a web server configured for Earthdata Login authentication.
Step-by-step guide
- Make sure you have authorized the application from which you are downloading data (see How To Pre-authorize an application). The application website should also have instructions on how to do this.
- Configure your username and password for authentication using a .netrc file
> cd ~
> touch .netrc
> echo "machine urs.earthdata.nasa.gov login <uid> password <password>" > .netrc
> chmod 0600 .netrc
where<uid>
is your Earthdata Login username and<password>
is your Earthdata Login password. - Create a cookie file. This will be used to persist sessions across individual cURL/Wget calls, making it more efficient.
> cd ~
> touch .urs_cookies
- Download your data.
Using cURL:> curl -b ~/.urs_cookies -c ~/.urs_cookies -L -n http://server/path
or Wget:> wget --load-cookies ~/.urs_cookies --save-cookies ~/.urs_cookies --keep-session-cookies http://server/path
Note that you may supply additional options to control the output location.
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