ee.data.makeDownloadUrl

  • ee.data.makeDownloadUrl creates a download URL for Earth Engine data using a download ID and token.

  • The download ID can be obtained with ee.data.getDownloadId, specifying parameters such as the image, bands, region, and file format.

  • This function returns a string representing the URL from which the data can be downloaded.

  • You can use libraries like requests in Python to download the data from the generated URL.

Create a download URL from a docid and token.

Returns the download URL.

UsageReturns
ee.data.makeDownloadUrl(id)String
ArgumentTypeDetails
idDownloadIdA download id and token.

Examples

Code Editor (JavaScript)

// A Sentinel-2 surface reflectance image.
var img = ee.Image('COPERNICUS/S2_SR/20210109T185751_20210109T185931_T10SEG');

// A small region within the image.
var region = ee.Geometry.BBox(-122.0859, 37.0436, -122.0626, 37.0586);

var downloadId = ee.data.getDownloadId({
    image: img,
    name: 'single_band',
    bands: ['B3', 'B8', 'B11'],
    region: region
});
print('Single-band GeoTIFF files wrapped in a zip file',
      ee.data.makeDownloadUrl(downloadId));

Python setup

See the Python Environment page for information on the Python API and using geemap for interactive development.

import ee
import geemap.core as geemap

Colab (Python)

"""Demonstrates the ee.data.makeDownloadUrl method."""

import io
import requests
import ee


ee.Authenticate()
ee.Initialize()

# A Sentinel-2 surface reflectance image.
img = ee.Image('COPERNICUS/S2_SR/20210109T185751_20210109T185931_T10SEG')

# A small region within the image.
region = ee.Geometry.BBox(-122.0859, 37.0436, -122.0626, 37.0586)

# Image chunk as a NumPy structured array.
import numpy
download_id = ee.data.getDownloadId({
    'image': img,
    'bands': ['B3', 'B8', 'B11'],
    'region': region,
    'scale': 20,
    'format': 'NPY'
})
response = requests.get(ee.data.makeDownloadUrl(download_id))
data = numpy.load(io.BytesIO(response.content))
print(data)
print(data.dtype)

# Single-band GeoTIFF files wrapped in a zip file.
download_id = ee.data.getDownloadId({
    'image': img,
    'name': 'single_band',
    'bands': ['B3', 'B8', 'B11'],
    'region': region
})
response = requests.get(ee.data.makeDownloadUrl(download_id))
with open('single_band.zip', 'wb') as fd:
  fd.write(response.content)