Automated retrieval of obscured observations within a project

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I will start by saying I’m not a programmer. I’m attempting to create a project to pull observations from a project I created to help our local township out with biodiversity assessments. One of my goals is to also include observations with obscured coordinates that are unobscured within the project. As far as I can tell, this is done by creating an application and getting the authorization token, or credential, or whatever from that. In order to create an application, the account owner of the application needs to have contributed 10 improving identifications in the past month.

So, just to make sure I’m not extremely confused, I’m going to need to first do those 10 improving identifications in order to test my script, then I’m going to need to sit down with the land manager, who is not a taxonomist, and help her make 10 improving identifications of her own so that she can create an app of her own to get an authorization token associated with her account, because I can’t leave my own login credentials in this script. Is that right? I just want to make sure, because it seems like a complicated process. Thank you!

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Can you clarify what you mean by

Do you just want to access these data from your existing project or do you want a second iNat project containing a subset of observations from your original project that includes whether observations are obscured or not as one of its inclusion criteria? It may also help to post a link to your extant project.

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Good question, I am doing a wholly separate coding project to pull observations from an iNaturalist project. Thanks!

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you may want to read some of the discussion here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/access-to-the-api-denied/57916

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Ok I think I understand. I ought to give up on making this fully automated and just include a manual data download step! Thank you.