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Using Local Files

Web browser security settings prevent web pages from accessing local files using the normal request model. The solution is to serve the files from a local webserver. The following examples show catalog.json as the name of the local catalog you wish to browse - substitute the name of your catalog file if it is different.

Using STAC Browser from source

If you are accessing STAC Browser by running the npm start command, you can run a local webserver using the http-server package.

Install and run http-server via the following command from the directory that contains the STAC files:

npx http-server -p 8000 --cors

You can then set the environment variable SB_catalogUrl to "http://localhost:8000/catalog.json" when starting STAC Browser.

Using STAC Browser somewhere else

If you are using a hosted version of STAC Browser, such as the STAC Browser Demo by Radiant Earth, and your STAC files use relative URIs, you can run a local webserver. One possibility is to use the Node package described above. Another is to use this Python 3 script:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from http.server import HTTPServer, SimpleHTTPRequestHandler, test
import sys

class CORSRequestHandler (SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def end_headers (self):
        self.send_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
        SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.end_headers(self)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    test(CORSRequestHandler, HTTPServer, port=int(sys.argv[1]) if len(sys.argv) > 1 else 8000)

Save this script and run it from the directory that has your STAC Catalog. You can then use http://localhost:8000/catalog.json as the URL to your STAC file.

stactools

If the above options don't work for you, you can run a fully-featured implementation of STAC Browser locally using the stactools-browse package for stactools. One short command gives you:

  • STAC Browser running locally,
  • a local webserver that serves your files to STAC Browser, and
  • a local tile server that can serve web map tiles of images in your item assets.

stactools-browse requires Docker to run.

Installation using pip: pip install stactools stactools-browse

Then run: stac browse catalog.json