December 2017 - API-users - lists.gbif.org

Using the asynchronous download service
by Akshat Pant 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Hi all, I'm trying to retrieve the latitude and longitude for some specific organisms. I'm trying to use the synchronous download service. I used the 'equals' predicate to filter by the hasCoordinate value. But the curl query just returns a warning saying that it returns an empty post. I hope that someone can help. Thanks, Akshat

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Re: [API-users] GBIF Occurrence Detail URLs
by Keith Bornhorst 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

Perfect! Thank you so much!

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GBIF Occurrence Detail URLs
by Bornhorst, Keith 13 Dec '17

13 Dec '17

Hello all, My question concerns both the API and the GBIF website... GBIF is aware of and ingests all of my specimen/occurrence data via a Darwin Core archive on our IPT instance. The information flow is one-way, however, so I don't know GBIF's internal, unique identifier (e.g. gbifID = 1503266467) which I need to know if I want to create a direct link to the occurrence page (e.g. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1503266467) Using the API, I can obtain the gbifID via an API query such as http:… [View More]

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Clarification on limit defaults and max values for some routes
by Scott Chamberlain 07 Dec '17

07 Dec '17

Hi all, I don't remember what API behavior and documentation used to be like, but for some routes the behavior and docs don't seem ideal. For example, for name usages, I don't see any docs on default and max limit/offset values. As far as I can tell, only occurrences routes have that information. Could docs be added for what default and max limit/offset values are for each route or each set of routes? About behavior: If you put in a very large number to limit param like 20,000 I would think … [View More]

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GBIF API requests limit
by Akshat Pant 06 Dec '17

06 Dec '17

Hi all, I am new to this mailing list. Can someone please tell me what is the maximum requests per second allowed on the GBIF API ? I was not able to find this on the GBIF website's API section. I hope that the API guru members on this list will be able to help. Thanks in advance, Akshat

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