The Taxon Search API endpoint seems to return a maximum value of 10,000 in the total_results field. Would it be possible to let it return the actual number of taxon records that match the input parameters? So for example, if I wanted to know how many bird species iNaturalist had in its taxonomy, I’…

it looks like this has been implemented: https://github.com/inaturalist/iNaturalistAPI/commit/5266ea8f6aa1911da982342eb2187ad3ee5fc6a3 . this resolves the problem for the thing i was trying to build over here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/1-000-000th-taxa-record-added-to-inat-database/9308/6 (if…

Allow Taxon Search API endpoint to count total results higher than 10,000

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pisum June 17, 2020, 9:14pm 2

this is might be related to https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/v1-taxa-endpoints-cap-observations-count-at-10-000/7373.

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Allow Taxon Search API endpoint to count total results higher than 10,000

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