# Filtering in the id tool does not filter the downloaded csv-data

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/filtering-in-the-id-tool-does-not-filter-the-downloaded-csv-data/29188>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** web, question\
**Created:** [January 20, 2022, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/filtering-in-the-id-tool-does-not-filter-the-downloaded-csv-data/29188 "2022-01-20T08:36:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/filtering-in-the-id-tool-does-not-filter-the-downloaded-csv-data/29188/2 "2022-01-20T14:35:48Z")

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there’s not really a bug described here, as far as i can tell. maybe this thread should be reclassified in the General category.

> [@ralphma](#):
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> using the ID-Tool, you can filter for annotations and then you could download the csv-spreadsheet in the lower right corner. However, also filtering works for the shown data, this does not affect the data, which is downloaded

when you go to the [export page](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export), the parameters don’t always get carried over properly from the [Explore](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations) and [Identify](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify) pages. in these cases, you can manually edit the parameters in the gray box in section 1 of the export page. for example, in this case, i’ve added `&term_id=1&term_value_id=2` to the parameter list:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/b/8/b82464ddcf36076cdedc4dd5cf45dc012d3283a4.png)  
then when you look at the preview in Section 2 of the page, you’ll be able to see whether the filters were applied correctly.

> [@ralphma](#):
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> The problem is, that so far, the rinat package does not show annotations.

last time i checked, rinat is old and built off of the old deprecated API. i would not use it. if you must stick with R, i would probably hit the [iNat API](https://api.inaturalist.org) directly or else use a different package. more discussion here:

- [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/display-the-users-first-identification-in-the-observations-json-and-project-csv-export-data/13355/3](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/display-the-users-first-identification-in-the-observations-json-and-project-csv-export-data/13355/3)
- [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/using-r-to-extract-observations-of-a-specific-phenological-state/7007/4](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/using-r-to-extract-observations-of-a-specific-phenological-state/7007/4)
- [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bulk-import-of-csv-failed/26181/9](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/bulk-import-of-csv-failed/26181/9)

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