Without a Grid File ------------------- If a grid file is not available, the system will use tile metadata to perform spatial filtering. In this approach, you simply replace the specific grid indices (``h`` and ``v``) in the source string with a wildcard (``*``). This example demonstrates how to download data for Albania during January 2017 without using a grid file. .. warning:: This method can be slower because it first fetches metadata for all available files before applying the bounding box filter. .. literalinclude:: without_a_grid_file.py :language: python