[API-users] Getting number of records for a given scientific name

Barve,Vijay vbarve at flmnh.ufl.edu
Wed Jan 30 20:56:09 CET 2019


Hello


You will have to use taxonKey for the species of your interest i.e. http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?taxonKey=2974832? should produce required result.


Regards,


Vijay


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Vijay Barve
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Informatics Division
Florida Museum of Natural History
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University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
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Subject: [API-users] Getting number of records for a given scientific name

Dear ALL,

Is there a way to retrieve the number of georeferenced records for a given scientific name using a GBIF API call?

I tried something like "http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?ScientificName=Vicia+faba<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__api.gbif.org_v1_occurrence_count-3FScientificName-3DVicia-2Bfaba&d=DwMFaQ&c=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM&r=x4Jq5JthFx0F-_J4c6ssOZGgyYp3W6VaswmEvae3Pv0&m=CwACpnDe-hcCFKBbsCUG5-9iBRQZlyIk7EZ8c16lZ1I&s=Hqz3dkLCynTyoQHX9-B71mr0OjLvUqoOcSp5CRzZi9c&e=>" but it of course didn't work.

I realize this is a rather silly question, but most of the time I only access the GBIF API using Python (via pygibf) or R (via rgbif), and therefore I'm not used to direct calls to the API (what a shame!).

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide?

Best regards,

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