February 2015 - API-users - lists.gbif.org

Limits on the occurrence search API
by Nicolas Noé 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

Hi, I'm having some doubts about how the hard limits work when using the occurrence search API. I think this is a documentation/error message issue rather than a technical one: Here is what the doc says: - max value for "limit" = 300 - max total records = 1.000.000 (does that means limit * offset?) What my tests says: - http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=300&offse… => works, but shouldn't since 300*3335 = 1000500 total records - http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=1&offset=… => "maximum offset allowed is 200000", but offset IS 200000 (message should be "less than"? 199999 works) Also, this limit on the offset parameter should be stated in the doc page. - http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?hasCoordinate=true&limit=300&offse… => "maximum offset allowed is 200000": here, we probably hit the 1.000.000 total limit, but the error message refer to the undocumented (and not hit here) max offset limit. Could you clarify a bit ? All the best, Nico

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yesterdays GBIF portal problems resolved
by Markus Döring 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

Dear all, we deployed some updated components of our portal yesterday and had troubles especially with species related pages for almost the entire day. We are sorry for this and this should be solved now. Thanks all for reporting issues. If you still experience unexpected behavior or even Oops pages please let us know! Regards, GBIF Dev Team

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Changes in the API
by eli eltsufin 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

Hi, You have changed the language description to 3 word short description. Because we are entering the final weeks of the competition, is it possible to avoid any more changes. If i haven't notice the change, my app wouldn't work properly. Thanks, Eli

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