How to download automatically a large number of LANDSAT Level 2A files produced at THEIA.

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 Until the shopping basket feature in the LANDSAT 8 data server at THEIA is ready, here is a short user manual on how to automatically download large numbers of LANDSAT tiles.

1. Download the DownThemAll plugin for Firefox.
2. Log in http://theia.cnes.fr/
3. Enter your request, for instance « LANDSAT8 july 2013 »
4. Add « &maxRecords=500 », at the end of the URL : http://spirit.cnes.fr/resto/Landsat/?format=html&lang=en&q=LANDSAT8+july+2013&maxRecords=500, to raise the maximum number of image per page to 500
5. Click right on « DownThemAll ». Enter your download directory in « Save files in », and in « quick filtering », add *download.  Select  « discard other filters », Add « *name*.tgz » in the renaming mask, then click on start.
6. All the files are downloaded.