Get URL for a Landsat 8 scene on AWS

l8scene2url.py

URL_TEMPLATE = 'http://landsat-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/L8/{path}/{row}/{id}/index.html'


def url_from_scene_id(id):
    path = id[3:6]
    row = id[6:9]
    return URL_TEMPLATE.format(path=path, row=row, id=id)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    import os
    import sys

    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        raise RuntimeError('Usage: l8scene2url.py [landsat8 scene id]')
    else:
        # OS X only
        os.system('open {}'.format(url_from_scene_id(sys.argv[1])))