Bug for the species count

Bug Reports
1

When counting the species of two locations, it seems to be pulling species count from “The World”, instead of just the two areas.

Example and screenshots here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63/164

2

You need to provide links or information on the locations for anyone to examine this.

EDIT - sorry, I misread the link information.

It is broken across the board, any combination of locations generates the same species count.

3

strange. it seems to be the combination of multiple place ids and other parameters that causes a problem.

ok:
https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations/species_counts?place_id=7613&place_id=10301

bad:
https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations/species_counts?verifiable=true&place_id=7613&place_id=10301

ok:
https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations/species_counts?verifiable=any&place_id=7613&place_id=10301

bad:
https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations/species_counts?verifiable=any&spam=false&place_id=7613&place_id=10301

4

Thanks for reporting. I just deployed a fix for this and hopefully the counts are accurate again. The bug was in how the data was being cached when multiple place_ids were provided.

FYI a better way to search on multiple values of a parameter is to provide them all in a comma-delimited list rather than repeating the parameter multiple times, e.g. https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations/species_counts?verifiable=true&place_id=7613,10301

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5

Looks correct now, thanks @pleary!