[API-users] /species route question/possible problem

[Scott Chamberlain]

Hi folks,

Seems like the `/species` route is possibly misbehaving in certain cases. A
user of rgbif reports https://github.com/ropensci/rgbif/issues/287
unexpected results. The same calls but with curl:

curl  '
https://api.gbif.org/v1/species?datasetKey=73605f3a-af85-4ade-bbc5-522bfb90d847&datasetKey=d7c60346-44b6-400d-ba27-8d3fbeffc8a5'
| jq .results\[].datasetKey | wc -l
      10

curl  '
https://api.gbif.org/v1/species?datasetKey=73605f3a-af85-4ade-bbc5-522bfb90d847'
| jq .results\[].datasetKey | wc -l
      10

curl  '
https://api.gbif.org/v1/species?datasetKey=d7c60346-44b6-400d-ba27-8d3fbeffc8a5'
| jq .results\[].datasetKey | wc -l
       7

We'd expect the first curl request to return 17 results given the results
of the datasetKey's individually. Not sure what is going on there. This
route does appear to accept multiple instances of the same parameter, but
not sure why the top curl call there doesn't return 17 results?

Best, Scott
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