Is it possible to query/download satellite images with Python?

There are python APIs for downloading satellite imagery. You can get one from any of:- 1) www.planet.com 2) www.openstreetmap.org

This pycon presentation "Python from Space: Analyzing Open Satellite Imagery Using the Python Ecosystem" by Katherine Scott covers what you are looking for. See details of it at: https://github.com/kscottz/PythonFromSpace/blob/master/README.md

Also these OS questions has some useful answers related to what you are looking for: 1) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4802513/where-how-to-get-free-high-resolution-satellite-images-for-geospatial-data-vis 2) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7490491/capture-embedded-google-map-image-with-python-without-using-a-browser

You might be interested in this https://github.com/Jimut123/jimutmap. I have created a scraper to download any amount of map tiles by which you can create any amount of map data for training in Deep Neural Network architectures. Since this uses the Haversine formula for indexing the map tiles, you can download map tiles at any scale by passing a parameter known as zoom. You can also download large quantities of maps through multi-threading within seconds, so this is the best place for scraping any map place within seconds. You can even get road masks by modifying the code, so in essence you get everything for free.