I'm trying to download all the available Planet imagery for a site in California by cropping a subarea. I can see there's 112 assets of type REOrthoTile or PSOrthoTile for this site using the stats endpoint. I follow the procedure in the docs about activating & downloading assets, yet I can only download 40 of the 112 images. I get the following error:
{"field": {}, "general": [{"message": "Download quota has been exceeded."}]}
The documentation talks about rate limits, but I can't find any information on the download quota:
https://www.planet.com/docs/reference/data-api/api-mechanics/#rate-limits
The question is — how to find out whether/what download quotas apply? Is that something one can get programmatically by querying the API (so to be used in an automated client that is mindful of the quota)?
More info on the asset I'm trying to download:
AOI:
{"coordinates": [[[-117.7070372256684, 34.08932328386836], [-117.69617937433158, 34.08932328386836], [-117.69617937433158, 34.08033071613165], [-117.7070372256684, 34.08033071613165], [-117.7070372256684, 34.08932328386836]]], "type": "Polygon"}
item ID: 20151205_192708_1154812_RapidEye-2
item type: REOrthoTile
asset type: analytic
Best Answer
There is a quota of 20 downloads per-day with Explorer accounts. You can view usage on your account page, in the organizations section: https://www.planet.com/account.
When using the API, a
429error will be returned if you exceed your daily quota.