getLandsat_records fails to connect to server (HTTP 500)

[rphamer]

Thanks so much for this package, it's incredibly useful!

Unfortunately, I am having problems downloading Landsat data (Sentinel is working fine). I can log-in successfully with my USGS account, but when I try to access records I get the following error: "Error in .post(url = paste0(getOption("gSD.api")$ee, "scene-search?"), : Internal Server Error (HTTP 500). Failed to connect to server.."

Code below

library(getSpatialData)

# login
login_USGS(name, pword)

# session settings
set_archive("./01_Spatial_data/LANDSAT/")
set_aoi(aoi_data[[2]])

# query landsat records
records <- get_records(time_range = c("2018-05-15", "2018-05-25"), 
                       products = "LANDSAT_8_C1") 

In case relevant/helpful:

• when I check services() USGS EarthExplorer is listed as 'unknown' and 'NA', while all other servers are listed as 'available' and 'Connection successfully established'.

* ESA Copernicus Open Hub:  'available'     'Connection successfully established.'
* ESA Copernicus S5P Hub:   'available'     'Connection successfully established.'
* ESA Copernicus GNSS Hub:  'available'     'Connection successfully established.'
* USGS-EROS ESPA:           'available'     'Connection successfully established.'
* USGS EarthExplorer:       'unknown'       'NA'
* AWS Landsat 8:            'available'     'Connection successfully established.'
* NASA DAAC LAADS:          'available'     'Connection successfully established.'

• I've created and downloaded an order via ESPA to try to avoid the problem discussed in Maybe USGS server error? #66
• I don't have machine-to-machine access as suggested by aviankind in login_earthdata() #96 , is this required?

Thanks so much for any help you can give

[rphamer]

Answered my own question - getting the machine-to-machine access approved fixed my problem