Configure whether to open URLs when validating assets

stac_validator/utilities.py

@@ -152,28 +152,31 @@ def set_schema_addr(version: str, stac_type: str) -> str:
 def link_request(
     link: Dict,
     initial_message: Dict,
+    open_urls: bool = True,
 ) -> None:
     """Makes a request to a URL and appends it to the relevant field of the initial message.
 
     Args:
         link: A dictionary containing a "href" key which is a string representing a URL.
         initial_message: A dictionary containing lists for "request_valid", "request_invalid",
         "format_valid", and "format_invalid" URLs.
+        open_urls: Whether to open link href URL
 
     Returns:
         None
 
     """
     if is_url(link["href"]):
         try:
-            if "s3" in link["href"]:
-                context = ssl._create_unverified_context()
-                response = urlopen(link["href"], context=context)
-            else:
-                response = urlopen(link["href"])
-            status_code = response.getcode()
-            if status_code == 200:
-                initial_message["request_valid"].append(link["href"])
+            if open_urls:
+                if "s3" in link["href"]:
+                    context = ssl._create_unverified_context()
+                    response = urlopen(link["href"], context=context)
+                else:
+                    response = urlopen(link["href"])
+                status_code = response.getcode()
+                if status_code == 200:
+                    initial_message["request_valid"].append(link["href"])
         except Exception:
             initial_message["request_invalid"].append(link["href"])
         initial_message["format_valid"].append(link["href"])

stac_validator/validate.py

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ class StacValidate:
         core (bool): Whether to only validate the core STAC object (without extensions).
         links (bool): Whether to additionally validate links (only works in default mode).
         assets (bool): Whether to additionally validate assets (only works in default mode).
+        assets_open_urls (bool): Whether to open assets URLs when validating assets.
         extensions (bool): Whether to only validate STAC object extensions.
         custom (str): The local filepath or remote URL of a custom JSON schema to validate the STAC object.
         verbose (bool): Whether to enable verbose output in recursive mode.
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ def __init__(
         core: bool = False,
         links: bool = False,
         assets: bool = False,
+        assets_open_urls: bool = True,
         extensions: bool = False,
         custom: str = "",
         verbose: bool = False,
@@ -67,6 +69,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.schema = custom
         self.links = links
         self.assets = assets
+        self.assets_open_urls = assets_open_urls
         self.recursive = recursive
         self.max_depth = max_depth
         self.extensions = extensions
@@ -122,7 +125,7 @@ def assets_validator(self) -> Dict:
         assets = self.stac_content.get("assets")
         if assets:
             for asset in assets.values():
-                link_request(asset, initial_message)
+                link_request(asset, initial_message, self.assets_open_urls)
         return initial_message
 
     def links_validator(self) -> Dict: