As a French naturalist, I like to explore French and European reference websites on local flora and fauna.
Obviously, iNaturalist cannot link to all these sites.
So, to save time when consulting them, I have set up a small extension to iNaturalist that adds an external links button to the taxon pages.
This is made possible by the Tampermonkey plugin, which is compatible with most browsers.
If you’d like to use it, all you have to do is :
Once the userscript is installed, when you load a taxon page, 2 new buttons will appear:
an External Links button: which displays links to selected external sites
a Settings button ( cogwheel on the right): which allows you to select the links that interest you
Here’s a short animated GIF demo: (in a French-speaking environment )
I’m not a real developer, and I have to admit that ChatGPT helped me write this script. But I’m happy with it because it’s functional and very useful in my daily naturalist practice
There are undoubtedly lots of improvements to be made: I probably wouldn’t have the time or the skills to develop it further, except by adding other sites that you can suggest me. Here’s the Github repository where I put it (but I’m not very comfortable with the Github environment!)
It is published as opensource, so that anyone wishing to adapt it to their national context can do so freely by creating a new userscript.
Very useful, thanks :-)
I just submitted a pull request proposing to add 3 new links : Les carnets nature de Jessica, Featherbase and DORIS.
I added them to the end of the array but maybe we can start sorting them alphabetically.