Hi Gaurav, the correct call to the species match service is this: http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/species/match?name=Hoolock+hoolock%E2%80%9D
I'm surprised it did work before, I don't think we changed the URL in this release. We *did* finally do a new deploy though yesterday morning so you should see a slightly enhanced occurrence API now.
best, Markus
-- Markus Döring Software Developer Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) mdoering@gbif.org http://www.gbif.org
On 17 Jun 2014, at 02:52, Gaurav Vaidya gaurav@ggvaidya.com wrote:
Hi there!
Since around 2am MT last night (around 8am UTC), the /species?name=A API query has been down for me; I only get a server timeout with the request "http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/species?name=Hoolock+hoolock%E2%80%9D, for example. I can still access other API services, such as “http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/species/search?q=Hoolock+hoolock%E2%80%9D.
Any idea what’s going on?
cheers, Gaurav