polartoolkit icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
polartoolkit copied to clipboard

EarthDataDownloader object to retain user login credentials

Open PennyHow opened this issue 2 months ago • 1 comments

Description of the desired feature: Functionality added so that login credentials are retained by the EarthDataDownloader object after first inputted, and therefore the user does not have to keep re-defining them for each download.

In the tutorials, there is repeated EarthData login requests. For example, in the 3D_stack tutorial:

measures_shelves = fetch.measures_boundaries(version="IceShelf")

Also, there is nothing in your documentation on how to define credentials as environment variables (the icepack link in the API reference for EarthDataDownloader is broken).

PennyHow avatar Apr 24 '24 12:04 PennyHow