<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Tim,</div><div><br></div><div>I received an error message (via email) when attempting to post 300 taxon keys:</div><div><br></div><div>"We are sorry, but an error has occurred processing your download."</div><div><br></div><div>Please see attached query file.</div><div><br></div><div>Curl command:</div><div><br></div><div>curl --include --user username:password --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data @query_1.json <a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request">http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I received a HTTP status code "201 Created."<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Ben<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 3:52 AM Tim Robertson <<a href="mailto:trobertson@gbif.org">trobertson@gbif.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi Benjamin,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Download will be best.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">However, there are limits and you will not be able to push 3000 in.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">You could either split it into groups of e.g. 300, or use a higher taxon and then implement a post-filter to throw away those not in your list (the latter is how I would do it).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am sorry for this nuisance, and this is a known issue that we do aim to address:
</span><a href="https://github.com/gbif/portal-feedback/issues/1768" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://github.com/gbif/portal-feedback/issues/1768</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Tim<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">API-users <<a href="mailto:api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org" target="_blank">api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org</a>> on behalf of Benjamin Feinsilver <<a href="mailto:benjamin.feinsilver@gmail.com" target="_blank">benjamin.feinsilver@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 3 April 2019 at 09.33<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:api-users@lists.gbif.org" target="_blank">api-users@lists.gbif.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:api-users@lists.gbif.org" target="_blank">api-users@lists.gbif.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[API-users] Requesting Occurrence Data for Large List of Species<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If I have a list of around 3,000 species, and I would like to request occurrence data for each species, is it more efficient to use the Search or Download API?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If using the Download API, could I include the list of species in an external query file and use the "in" predicate? For example:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<code> "creator":"userName",</code><br>
<code> "notification_address": ["<a href="mailto:userName@example.org" target="_blank">userName@example.org</a>"],</code><br>
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<code> "type":"in",</code><br>
<code> "key":"SCIENTIFIC_NAME",</code><br>
<code> "values":["cat1","cat2","cat3"]</code><br>
<code> }</code><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ben<u></u><u></u></p>
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