Authenticating with UAT when searching for services

[asteiker]

Discussed in #1197

^{Originally posted by eni-awowale February 6, 2026}
Hi all! I am at the GES_DISC and work with @battistowx!

We use earthaccess in the Cloud Giovianni Averaging Service to query CMR for the latest version of our service so we can populate the history attribute field in our time averaged map.

When I call earthaccess.search_services(provider='GES_DISC') it returns the results from the CMR PROD query. But we are also interested in getting UAT records.

I get a RuntimeError when I explicitly try to authenticate with UAT

earthaccess.login(system=earthaccess.UAT)
earthaccess.search_services(provider='GES_DISC')

From a quick glance at services.py and api.py it looks like search_services is using my UAT edl token to query the CMR PROD API?

Maybe this is something we could investigate during the next hackday!

[asteiker]

Thank for you joining us at the hackday today @eni-awowale and for submitting the Discussion. I added a few notes over there before converting it to an Issue.

I am tagging @chuckwondo and also @betolink since he thought this was likely a simple fix. If either/both you could provide some additional guidance for @eni-awowale as far as where the issue may lie or what needs to be updated, she is willing to submit a PR and offer her first contribution to the library. Thanks all!

[chuckwondo]

@eni-awowale, this should be a straightforward fix. It should only require a small change to DataServices.__init__ in earthaccess/services.py. Would you like some guidance to do this yourself? I'm happy to either assist you or to do the fix myself.

[chuckwondo]

@asteiker, are you able to reach out to @eni-awowale to see if she's interested in working on this? I'm happy to assist her, if she's interested.

[eni-awowale]

Hi @chuckwondo ! Yes, I am interested in working on this. Thanks for reaching out!