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This is a simple graphical user interface to simplify the selection and downloading process. Here a small demonstration, what can be made using this tool.
First select you wanted date, time and color-band (default: RGB). To preview the selected point in time click 'Update Image'. The dropdown menu below the date is for selecting the number of tiles. This directly influences the resolution of the final images, see resolution for more details.
To select the right area simply draw a rectangle over the image. The resulting resolution can be seen in the top right corner.
Before pressing 'Download' make sure, that the desired timesteps between two frames and the amount of frames (24h with 10m timestep = 144 frames) is set. In the case you want to start the download not at the first frame (e.g. to continue an earlier download) select your startframe (default: 1).
This small script automates the download of himawari-footage to simplify the process of creating timelapses. Here a small timelapse made with this script.
This script will create/use a 'temp'-folder in the selected filepath-folder. Any *.png-files in this folder will be deleted. Also the images in 'Result' may be overwritten.
base_url URL-template the script will download from.
filepath by default the current working directory, but can also be set manually. At this location two folders will be created: 'temp' and 'Result'. The stitched images will be put in 'Result'.
resolution defines in what resolution the footage is downloaded, for detailed infos see resolution. Valid values are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 20.
year, month, day, hour, minutes time and date of the first frame. The minutes need to be a multiple of 10 (e.g. 0, 10, 20, ...).
number_of_frames how many frames should be grabbed.
number frame at which the script will start to download (default: 1). Usefull to continue/finish a partially downloaded animation.
start_tile_x, start_tile_y tile-coordinates of upper left corner. See resolution for easier mapping.
number_of_tiles_x, number_of_tiles_y width/height of selected area in tiles (1 tile = 550px). start_tile_x+number_of_tiles_x and start_tile_y+number_of_tiles_yhave to be smaller than resolution. Try to keep the number of tiles as low as possible, to reduce unnecessary bandwidth and storage usage.
The resolution-variable descibes in how many tiles (550x550px) the with/height of the complete globe-picture will be divided.
Use resolution = 20 for highest details. To find the right tiles at the different resolutions use the reference chart below.
