A python script to filter by filename and download PDS images.

Features

• Running on windows and linux machines.
• Filter on specific filenames with --name-contains option.
• Choose the download directory with the --output-dir option.

Installation

In order to use this script we need to install bs4, lxml, requests and rich. We can do this with this command:

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

or directly

pip install bs4 lxml requests rich

Usage

$ ./pdsimage_downloader.py  -h
pdsimage downloader v1.1 - by @podalirius_

usage: pdsimage_downloader.py [-h] -u URL [-n NAME_CONTAINS] [-D OUTPUT_DIR] [-v]

A python script to filter by filename and download PDS images.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u URL, --url URL     URL of the PDS image archive.
  -n NAME_CONTAINS, --name-contains NAME_CONTAINS
                        Filtering only files where the name contains this string.
  -D OUTPUT_DIR, --output-dir OUTPUT_DIR
                        Output directory where the images will be stored.
  -v, --verbose         Verbose mode. (default: False)

Example

./pdsimage_downloader.py --name-contains _DM_ -u https://pdsimage2.wr.usgs.gov/archive/mess-h-mdis-5-dem-elevation-v1.0/MESSDEM_1001/DEM/REGIONAL/IMG/

Demonstration

On Windows:

demo_windows.mp4

On Linux:

demo_linux.mp4

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Feel free to open an issue if you want to add other features.