How do I exclude myself when searching through observations? I want to search through all of Oklahoma’s Salticidae observations, but since that’s my current focus and I reside in Oklahoma, the overwhelming majority of those observations are my own. Is there a way I can exclude my observations in th…

add &not_user_id=salticidude to the url. eg: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=12&subview=grid&taxon_id=48139&not_user_id=salticidude

If your intent is identification, the Identify page is the best place, since all of your observations are excluded (as long as you’ve added an ID to it) and it will not show you, by default, the observations by others you’ve already added IDs to: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?pla…

[image] bouteloua: for some reason you have to use the user number I thought I used to be able to do it with the username, but maybe I’m remembering wrongly… [image] bouteloua: since all of your observations are excluded (as long as you’ve added an ID to it) Somehow I completely forgo…

Thank you, guys! And I just realized my username on the forum is different than on the main page. I will change that now.

Thanks @bothrops07 for this post. Have been looking for this solution as well. Thanks @bouteloua for the explanation. Where can one find these “hidden” filters. This is the 3rd one that I have picked up that is useful.

Thank you. I will meander through them.

Excluding self in search

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bouteloua August 7, 2019, 11:31am 7

There are many listed in the API documentation api.inaturalist.org, as well as here https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63

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