Exporting all your identifications to a file

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why would you want to export this kind of information?

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the API can provide this information via GET /v1/identifications. see https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/docs/#!/Identifications/get_identifications.

your base request URL would be something like this: https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/identifications?per_page=200&own_observation=false&user_id=4474059&current=any

you’d have to use some sort of coding language or scripting tool to efficiently increment and iterate through pages and to parse the response to get the results you’re looking for.

one challenge is that iNaturalist’s API won’t return results beyond the first 10,000 records for any set of base parameters. since you have more than that number of identifications, you’ll have to break up your total set of identifications by some logical grouping, such as date ranges.

here’s a page that can help you visualize some of the results of the API in a more human-friendly format: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_identifications.html?per_page=200&own_observation=false&user_id=4474059&current=any

if you’re not great with coding, you still might be able to use an automation tool like Power Automate to scrape the results from this page. this might help you get started, if you’re interested in going down that path: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/community-taxon-algorithm-tweaks/28583/51.

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