Demise of the USGS/EROS SOAP API

[ghost]

I just received the message copied below. Is there any plan to support the new API or will this library stop working after May 15?

Dear Machine-To-Machine EarthExplorer User.

USGS/EROS will retire support for the SOAP API on May 1, 2017.

The JSON / REST API is the primary Machine-To-Machine protocol and after May 1st it will be the only API supported for bulk data downloads.

https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/inventory/documentation

A two week grace period will be in effect to provide more time if you need it to make the transition from SOAP to JSON.

However, all SOAP calls made after May 15 will be bounced and only JSON calls will be honored for data downloads.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter,

Tim Smith
Data Management & Information Task Lead
Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT, Inc.)
Contractor to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
47914 252nd Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57198

[kapadia]

Hi @citterio - thanks for the note. Work has started to support the JSON api over at https://github.com/kapadia/usgs/tree/json-api. This will be reach parity with the SOAP implementation before USGS fully deprecates the SOAP API.

[ghost]

Awesome!

[kapadia]

The library has been updated to access USGS's JSON API. The SOAP implementation entirely deprecated. Please note that all responses will have a slightly different data structure since we're no longer coercing XML into JSON, but rather preserving the response from USGS.