EarthDL guides

Google Earth to SketchUp: import a satellite image at real scale
How to bring a Google Earth satellite image into SketchUp as a textured face in real meters with geo-location set, using EarthDL. Works with .skp, a Ruby script or Collada.

Satellite image in Blender at real scale (from Google Earth)
How to get a Google Earth satellite image into Blender as a textured ground mesh in real meters, with EarthDL: a ready .blend file, or glTF and a Python import script.

How to download historical Google Earth imagery by date
Download old Google Earth satellite images of any area for a date you pick. EarthDL lists the dates that really exist for your area and saves one georeferenced image.

Georeferenced Google Earth image for QGIS, ArcGIS and Global Mapper
Download a Google Earth satellite image with a world file and .prj (EPSG:3857) so QGIS, ArcGIS and Global Mapper place it correctly. Includes GeoTIFF conversion with GDAL.

EarthDL vs Google Earth Images Downloader (allmapsoft)
A plain comparison of EarthDL and Google Earth Images Downloader by allmapsoft: sources, historical imagery, output formats, SketchUp and Blender export, trial and price.

The basic steps are on the How to use page.