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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi William,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It seems that a lot of users have been querying the search API lately, which puts a strain on the GBIF backend (especially it comes to deep paging) and makes it slow for everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The solution is to use the download API instead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In other words, use the </span><a href="https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/rgbif/versions/1.3.0/topics/occ_download"><span lang="EN-US">occ_download()</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> function instead of the
<a href="https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/rgbif/versions/1.3.0/topics/occ_search">
occ_search()</a> function.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Using the download API would also allow you to get all your species in one download making it more convenient for citations later on because you would have only one DOI to cite. This blogpost give an example of R code
to generate a download of a long list of species: <a href="https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/downloading-long-species-lists-on-gbif/">
https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/downloading-long-species-lists-on-gbif/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I hope this helps!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Marie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">API-users <api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org> on behalf of William Gearty <wgearty@unl.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 4 November 2019 at 23.41<br>
<b>To: </b>"API-users@lists.gbif.org" <API-users@lists.gbif.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[API-users] Intermittent outages??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've noticed some intermittent outages lately, specifically with the occurrences API. I'm trying to query the occurrences API via rgbif for a bunch of taxa in a loop, and I keep getting "Error: 500 - Server error" and I have to restart
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any idea when the resource will be permanently stable again?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Will<o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#454545">William Gearty</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#454545"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:1.5pt;line-height:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#454545">University of Nebraska–Lincoln<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:1.5pt;line-height:10.5pt"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#454545"><a href="http://williamgearty.com" target="_blank">williamgearty.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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