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://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?occurrenceId=urn:catalog:USF:Herb:… (the UUID we're currently using, soon to be replaced with a GUID) and I could batch process all of my occurrence records and store these ids (or do a real-time API lookup and redirect users). And using the Advanced Search I can link to https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?occurrence_id=urn:catalog:USF:Herb:2… and get the single record in the search result. I'm curious to know if the GBIF website has any hidden (to me) auto-redirect capabilities that will send users to the matching occurrence page? Possibly a "redirectOnSingleResult=true" query string value that performs a redirect? Thanks, Keith Keith Bornhorst (bornhorst(a)usf.edu<mailto:bornhorst@usf.edu>) Web Development Team Leader, USF Water Institute School of Geosciences University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Ave, CHE 304, Tampa, FL 33620 Phone: (813) 974-7406 WaterInstitute.usf.edu<http://waterinstitute.usf.edu/> - WaterAtlas.org<http://wateratlas.usf.edu/> - PlantAtlas.org<http://plantatlas.usf.edu/> - TampaTreeMap.org<http://tampatreemap.usf.edu/> - ButterflyAtlas.org<http://butterflyatlas.usf.edu/>

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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 that's bigger than what's allowed, but perhaps not? If I do a curl request with a very high limit value I was expecting to quickly get an error about the limit parameter being too high. If it's too high perhaps it's simply dropped and a default value is used (just like the /occurrences/search)? If that was the case I would expect some round default value like 1000 or so. Or is there no max value for limit on some routes? If so, that seems like it'd leave the API open to abuse? (p.s., I was testing what a request with very large limit does and I hope I didn't break anything on your end, apologies if I did) Best, Scott

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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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