I am using osgeo.gdal.translate function in Python to download multiple tif files from a browser (FAO Data File Explorer), what requires to specify the word /vsicurl/ before the url name.

The files are accessed successfully within a loop, but… I don’t know where they are stored, or the way I can accesed to them. I need them locally in my machine.

Does anybody know how to access them or download to a local folder?

I am using this google colab code for downloading the data.

This are the steps given to download the data:

from osgeo import gdal # The most important one, gdal downloads the data.
import pandas as pd # Pandas helps to deal with calendar related things.
from tqdm.notebook import tqdm # We use tqdm to show a simple progress bar.

Then we define the spatial domain. Choose a bounding box for which to download data.

bb = [15, -26, 22, -36] # [xmin, ymax, xmax, ymin]

We set some variables required by gdal.Translate.

options = gdal.TranslateOptions(
    projWin = bb, # passing the bounding-box to gdal.Translate
    creationOptions = ["COMPRESS=DEFLATE"], # reduces the filesize of the created files.

Daily
Choose for which dates to download daily data.

dates = pd.date_range("2018-01-01", "2018-12-01")

Next, for each date we define a unique filename and the precise url, then we download the data. The ‘/vsicurl/’ part of url is something only required by gdal.Translate, in your browser you can remove that part of the url.
Loop over each date in dates.

for date in tqdm(dates):

    # Define unique filename.
    filename = f"AGERA5_ET0_{date.strftime('%Y%m%d')}.tif"

    # Define the exact url for this date.
    url = f"/vsicurl/https://data.apps.fao.org/static/data/c3s/AGERA5_ET0/{filename}"

    # Download the actual data.
    ds = gdal.Translate(filename, url, options = options)