Download F-Net Broadband Seismograph Data automatically using Selenium in Python

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What is F-Net?

Fnet is a Japanese a nationwide broadband seismograph network. Please visit the Fnet Site for details.

Station Information

For more details, visit their site.

Setup for using the program

• STEP 1: Install webdriver for successful execution of the Fnet script We recommend geckodriver for Firefox Installation page: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

  NOTE: You must have Firefox installed in your system

• STEP 2: add geckodriver location info to the system path (For Mac see ~/.bash_profile, for Linux see ~/.bashrc). For windows user, you can copy the geckodriver.exe file to your desired location and add that location to the system environment path.

• STEP 3: make user account and add the user and passwd to config.py file. Please make sure to confirm your registration.

• STEP 4: install the environment using the environment.yml file or requirements.txt file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

For conda environment:

conda create --name fnetdata --file requirements.txt

Run script

• edit the settings.yml file to specify your desired data
• execute the script fnet_data_download.py for downloading the Fnet data

NOTE: the script need to be executed in proper environment.

python fnet_data_download.py

Other necessary informations

• Data will be downloaded for all the stations listed in F_net_stations.txt.
• Download information can be accessed through the logfile.txt
• The data will be downloaded in the downloadDir folder

NOTES (for FNET data):

• Be careful that 50MB is maximum size of one file that you can request.
• If you request one hour continuous waveform data of all observatories in SEED format with a sampling rate of 20Hz (e.g, BH*), data file creation for download may take about 10 minutes.
• And if you request 12 hours continuous waveform data of all observatories in SEED format with a sampling rate of 1Hz (e.g, LH*), data file creation for download may also take about 10 minutes.
• The latest data is from about two* days ago.