Perhaps you could use the GBIF Portal API? This is how we generate IPT statistics: http://www.gbif.org/ipt/stats Going this route there is the caveat, however, that the datasets you are interested in will have to be registered with GBIF.

On 19 Nov 2014, at 02:57, Doug Palmer <Doug.Palmer@csiro.au> wrote:

Hi IPTers,

I'm looking for a way to access an IPT instance as a web service. What I would like to do is poll for a list of the available resources in some machine friendly form, such as JSON or XML and use it to decide whether there have been any changes that I am interested in.

I think that I can probably do it via playing around with the the RSS feed but I would like to see if there is a more direct route that I could take or an extension that someone has already developed.

Doug Palmer
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