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

[Mauro Cavalcanti]

Dear ALL,

Thanks to all who replied, I already got it done and working fine;

Best regards,

Em qua, 30 de jan de 2019 às 17:56, Barve,Vijay <vbarve at flmnh.ufl.edu>
escreveu:

> 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
>
>
> ---
> Vijay Barve
> Post Doctoral Research Associate
> Informatics Division
> Florida Museum of Natural History
> 1659 Museum Road (Dickinson Hall)
> University of Florida
> Gainesville, FL 32611
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> *From:* API-users <api-users-bounces at lists.gbif.org> on behalf of Mauro
> Cavalcanti <maurobio at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 30, 2019 1:13 PM
> *To:* api-users at lists.gbif.org
> *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,
>
> --
> Dr. Mauro J. Cavalcanti
> E-mail: maurobio at gmail.com
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Dr. Mauro J. Cavalcanti
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