Last year I prototyped a browser extension that created buttons to add observation fields to observations on the Identify page in one click. I ran into some stability and reliability issues and wanted to add some more flexible setup features that I didn’t have the time or skills to achieve at the ti…

cool tool. I noticed addAnnotation just uses /annotations and tries to send given field values. As there will be cases where an annotation can exist - rightly or wrongly annotated - using response in someway and then using post /votes/vote/annotation/{id} would help here better for existing annotat…

Hmm I like this idea, it’s creative and addresses a real issue. But I am a bit hesitant to automate the power to tag users in bulk. I suppose it’s already technically possible to do this with the comment feature but making it even easier idk. . . I’ll think about it

@Megachile it looks like you’ve moved to a standalone repo and the download link no longer works. Can you update the original post to point to https://github.com/Megachile/inathelperJS/archive/refs/heads/main.zip please?

I just need you to know that I use this tool pretty much daily and I appreciate you so much. Today I changed my life by making an “Alive - Organism - Adult - Mark as Reviewed” Annotation button and the number of clicks it will save me is astronomical. I can’t believe I didn’t think of this sooner. …

Just tried to install it on Firefox and got the following error: [image] It’s not letting me select the manifest.json file but rather only letting me pick a .zip file

I couldn’t get it to work on Firefox, so now use Edge when I want to use this tool. That has essentially made Edge the app that runs the tool as I don’t use Edge otherwise. Works for me.

Yeah that’s also what I ended up doing

I’ve never been able to get it to work on Firefox, either. I’ve switched to Chrome for iNaturalist.

Has been working for me on Firefox You have to go to about:debugging…this Firefox…temporary extension https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/about_colon_debugging/index.html Unfortunately means you’ll have the re add it every time you fully close the browser

[image] hedaja: Unfortunately means you’ll have the re add it every time you fully close the browser I have the same experience.

Announcing the Universal Metadata Tool Beta (by @megachile)

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Megachile May 23, 2026, 4:36am 260

Official release thread!

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/official-release-of-the-inaturalist-metadata-tool/79300

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