Best way to download large datasets

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Hello everyone,

I’m trying to download all the observations uploaded to iNaturalist in my country, Portugal. The total number of records amounts to almost 600000.
I tried using https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export to export subsets of the whole dataset (which I would then merge together), but even that is slow and probably too heavy on iNats servers.

What is the best way to download this data? I know R language, so solutions in R are also welcome. I’m not too familiar with the API but could also give it a try

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Since Portugal is a member of the network, the site admins have access twice per year to an export of all of the observations from Portugal. I recommend reaching out to @luis2.

Alternatively, breaking the export down into several smaller subsets by filters (especially date and/or taxa) is recommended.

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Olá João,

Tal como mencionado pela @carrieseltzer nós podemos ajudar, em casos de necessidade de grandes sets de dados.

Pode enviar-nos um mail para biodiversity4all@gmail.com a explicar as suas necessidades?

Obrigado

@carrieseltzer thanks for reaching out, we’ll try to help the user. Sorry for replying in portuguese!

Best,
Luís

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@carrieseltzer thank you very much for the suggestion!

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