Newbie here, ran a python script for a basic python script to extract some butterfly information (basic columns) but also wanted ‘state_place_name’ to get the provinces in Canada but it is not working. Tried place_admin1_name but that is not working either. Any ideas? thanks!

Observations don’t store the name of the country/province/state/etc. where they are located, they store the place_ids as a list of integers. You can either take the list of integers from an observation and ask the api for further information about those places, or what I would suggest is to download…

Oh actually, are you talking about data you got from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export rather than from an API query? If so, you want to export with place_state_name selected. [image]

no, i got the export working and pleased to find the place_state_name. I was then trying to replicate that field I got with my export by using the api.

thank you, I will take a look at your suggestion.

API extract for state_place_name?

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pisum March 3, 2026, 2:51am 4

this (and the rest of the thread) may or may not help: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/select-observations-to-batch-download-from-list-of-observation-ids/61657/9

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API extract for state_place_name?

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