README.md

Forcing Batch Downloader

FBD, a set of script for downloading disc.gsfc.nasa.gov files using a list of URLs in a file.

This will download grib files to a directory named forcing_downloads

How To Install

1. Create a GES DISC account
2. Approve GES as a NASA earth data application on urs.earthdata.nasa.gov. Instructions here
3. Clone this repository
4. ./configure and enter your GES DISC Account information. All this is doing is creating files used by wget, see link for specifics.
5. sudo make install
   1. To uninstall sudo make uninstall

How To Use

1. Acquire a list of urls from disc.gsfc.nasa.gov, save these to a file.

2. fbd filename <number of simultatious downloads>

   Ex: fbd test_urls.txt 8

Dependencies

• GNU Flavor xargs
  • To install on Mac OSX use homebrew with the following command brew install findutils