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Developer Overview

Authentication

Planet APIs use different authentication methods depending on the domain (api.planet.com or sentinel-hub.com). See the authentication section for details.

Errors

Understand common HTTP and API-specific errors you may encounter when using Planet APIs — and how to resolve them. See the errors section for details.

Rate Limiting

Learn how Planet enforces rate limits, and how to manage 429 errors using strategies like exponential backoff. See the rate limiting section for details.

SDKs and Developer Resources

Explore official SDKs, CLI tools, and open-source libraries for working with Planet and Sentinel data. See the SDKs section for guides, examples, and frameworks like eo-learn and eo-grow.

Evalscripts

Write custom JavaScript scripts to process and visualize satellite data, apply logic, and extract metadata using Planet's Evalscript engine.