Planet Harvester - bulk-download images from the Planet gallery: https://www.planet.com/gallery/

index.js

// USAGE node index.js <path to target local storage> <type ("thumb", "geotiff", "full", "web")>
'use strict'

let fs = require('fs')
let request = require('request')
let async = require('async')
let localPath = process.argv[2]
let imageType = process.argv[3]

let planetUrl = 'https://www.planet.com/gallery.json'
let planetList, suffix

if (imageType === 'geotiff') {
  suffix = '.tif'
} else {
  suffix = '.jpg'
}
request(planetUrl, function(error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    planetList = JSON.parse(body)
  } else { 
    console.log('failed')
  }
  
  async.eachSeries(planetList, function (image, callback) {
    if (fs.existsSync(localPath + image.slug + suffix)) {
      console.log(image.slug + ' has already been saved')
    } else {
      let acquisitionDate = image.acquisition_date.substring(0,9)
      if (image.images[imageType]) {
        console.log('Saving ' + image.images[imageType])
        request(image.images[imageType]).pipe(fs.createWriteStream(localPath + image.slug + '_' + acquisitionDate + suffix))
        callback();
      }
    }
  }, function (err) {
    if (err) { throw err; }
    console.log('Got them all');
  });
})

package.json

{
  "name": "planet-harvester",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "A module for bulk-downloading images from the Planet gallery: https://www.planet.com/gallery/",
  "main": "index.js",
  "author": "bill@faraday.io",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "async": "^2.1.2",
    "https": "^1.0.0",
    "request": "^2.75.0"
  }
}