It isn’t clear to me just what is going on here. But let me describe just what I did. This ought to have worked because I have done exactly the same steps (with the same URL, even, I think) in the past successfully.
Then, in the filters menu, I selected “Download”. In the past this has successfully generated an export of the same results. But this time, it pulled up the following search URL quality_grade=any&identifications=any&place_id=42%2C48%2C51%2C52339&without_taxon_id=47336
… and reported zero results. Why?
I also added “Butterflies and Moths” via the search tools on the Export page, which gave the following:
quality_grade=any&identifications=any&taxon_id=47157&without_taxon_id=47336&field%3Ainteraction-%253Evisited%2Bflower%2Bof=&spam=false
and 37,447 results. Notice that the place IDs have now disappeared!
But it will not allow manually adding taxon_ids=47157,47201,47822,47208 to the URL – I have successfully done exports with multiple taxon ids in the past.
Thank you for working on this! It seems to me that not only do the params not carry over via the “Download” link from the ordinary iNat search URL, but trying to add them from the Export search page is screwy as well.
Hi – any progress working on this? I suppose there’s no point in me griping about how much this problem is hindering my work, because no one else has commented so apparently not very many people use the export function. But still, it’d be nice.
At least it is working somewhat – I just have to export hundred of thousands of observations instead of hundreds, and use other software to filter them. That’s a problem for you, too, isn’t it, since large exports tie up your servers.
