[API-users] A couple of questions about the download API

[Matthew Blissett]

Hi Doug,

You are correct about the occurrence download limits, it is about the 
number of running download jobs, the size is not counted.

You can avoid the email notification by launching a request using the 
API, and setting send_notificationto false [1].  (This ought to be in 
the API documentation, but I don't see it.) You can then poll for 
download status. See http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence#download :

- http://api.gbif.org/v1/ occurrence/download/user/{user} for all 
downloads by a user -- you need to use HTTP basic authentication here.

- http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/{key} for one download, 
e.g. http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0055494-160910150852091

Hope that helps,

Matt


[1] 
https://github.com/gbif/gbif-api/blob/master/src/main/java/org/gbif/api/model/occurrence/DownloadRequest.java#L59


On 09/02/2017 01.11, Doug Palmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie to the GBIF API and I have a couple of questions about 
> downloads. As background, I'm looking at the best way of getting data 
> from GBIF into the Atlas of Living Australia (the bits we don't have 
> already) properly split up into source datasets for attribution. My 
> questions:
>
> With the occurrence download limits, am I right in thinking that the 
> limits refer to the number of download requests being processed 
> simultaneously? Can the downloads be of any size in terms of number of 
> records and detail?
>
> Instead of being notified by email upon completion, is it possible to 
> poll the status of a download?
>
> Doug Palmer
>
>
>
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