Simple script to download all of the images on https://earthview.withgoogle.com/ in 1800x1200 resolution.

earth-view.py

import os
import json
import urllib.request
from tqdm import tqdm
import multiprocessing

with urllib.request.urlopen('https://earthview.withgoogle.com/_api/photos.json') as f:
    slugs = list(map(lambda slug: slug | dict(id=slug['slug'].split('-')[-1]),
                     json.loads(f.read().decode('utf-8'))))

with open('slug.json', 'w') as f:
    json.dump(slugs, f)

def fetch_meta(slug):

    path = 'meta/{slug}.json'.format(**slug)

    if os.path.isfile(path):

        # Load meta from disk
        with open(path, 'r') as f:
            meta = json.loads(f.read())

    else:

        # Download meta
        with urllib.request.urlopen('https://earthview.withgoogle.com/_api/{id}.json'.format(**slug)) as f:
            meta = json.loads(f.read().decode('utf-8'))

        # Save meta to disk
        with open(path, 'w') as f:
            json.dump(meta, f)

    return meta

os.makedirs('./meta', exist_ok=True)
metas = list(multiprocessing.Pool(12).imap(fetch_meta, tqdm(slugs, desc='Fetch Meta')))

with open('meta.json', 'w') as f:
    json.dump(metas, f)

def fetch_image(meta):

    path = 'images/{slug}.jpg'.format(**meta)

    if not os.path.isfile(path):

        # Download image to disk
        _, headers = urllib.request.urlretrieve(meta['photoUrl'], path)
        assert 'Content-Type: image/jpeg' in str(headers)

os.makedirs('./images', exist_ok=True)
multiprocessing.Pool(12).imap(fetch_image, tqdm(metas, desc='Fetch Images'))