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Give it a try then. Unless you have a huge user base this should not be overloading GBIF.
<div class="">We have decided to rather use a single field for the entire name and do an autocomplete on that. </div>
<div class="">Maybe this approach also works for you, then you could also just use the suggest as it is.</div>
<div class="">See the name filter here (type into "search" under Scientific Name):</div>
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My idea is that based on the validation services provided by GBIF to implement a search form with similar functionality (autocomplete, etc.) as the "Search for scientific names" form at Catalogue of life:<br class="">
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What is your opinion, is this way with the GBIF suggest api plus client side filtering a proper way? Considering the possible number of unnecessary result records (everything where kingdomKey<>6) and the number of unnecessary fields in each record (everything
except the GENUS field), wouldn't that be an unacceptable overload at GBIF side and performance / bandwidth issues at the requestor webapp side?<br class="">
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this is unfortunately not possible.
<div class="">You will have to filter them clientside checking for records with kingdomKey=6 or kingdom="Plantae"</div>
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Thank you very much. Do you have any idea, using the "suggest" API would it be possible somehow to filter the results for the Plantae kingdom only?
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Hi József,
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<div class="">the GBIF API hardly anywhere accepts wildcards. Apart from fuzzy matching entire words the only place you can use is the suggest API which should help you with your problem.</div>
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<div class="">It is a kind of autocomplete and you have to match the beginning of a word. It wont match in the middle or end. It does match on all words or tokens of a string, so for a species name it will match the genus part, the epithet or even the authorship.
Results are prioritized with author based matches coming last and higher ranks being more important.</div>
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<div class="">Here is an example:</div>
<div class=""><a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado</a></div>
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<div class="">The suggest API only allows you to retrieve 100 records though, but you can page through results up to 100.000 records max:</div>
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<div class=""><a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado&limit=100" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado&limit=100</a></div>
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<div class="">-> returns first 100 genera starting with Ado</div>
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<div class=""><a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado&limit=100&offset=100" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado&limit=100&offset=100</a></div>
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<div class="">-> returns 49 more genera starting with Ado</div>
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<div class=""><a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado&limit=100&offset=200" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado&limit=100&offset=200</a></div>
<div class="">-> returns 0 genera as expected</div>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="">Dear Scott,<br class="">
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Many thanks for your answer. I also added the "&highertaxonKey=6" param to narrow the results for plant genera only.<br class="">
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To be more precise what I exactly wish to achieve is as follows:<br class="">
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I only want to search within the "Plantae" kingdom.<br class="">
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Say, I look for the GENUS name "Adonis" but I only remember that the name starts with "Ado".<br class="">
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So my ideal API call would run a wildcard search within PLANT GENERA names for "Ado*" and would result in a list of ALL (without limit) plant genera names starting with "Ado*".<br class="">
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I played with the "/species/match", "/species/search" and "/species/suggest" sub-apis and with the "q" and "name" params. They don't accept wildcards and don't give the expected results for name chunks without wildcards.<br class="">
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Now my only hope is that I left out some constellations or misused something.<br class="">
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<div class="">where datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c is for the GBIF backbone taxonomy</div>
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Hello to all list members,<br class="">
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I'm new on this list and also new to the GBIF API. I'd like to get a<br class="">
list of all the genus names occuring in the GBIF database. After several<br class="">
hours of trying with the API, and no success, I found this mailing list.<br class="">
I hope that API guru members on the list can show me the right way or<br class="">
tell if this is not possible at all.<br class="">
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