Get photo by INaturalist users with API

[augustinsoulard]

Hello,
I want to automatically retrieve photos that I have posted on Inaturalist. Is it possible with the Inaturalist API to make requests to have my photos by species and only my photos. So run sort by observer and species via the API and get links to my photos.

Ty to you :)

[sbushes]

You can use API via this Notebook which is setup to give you the photo URLs, and sort by observer and taxon.

See also @jcook’s original explanation here on how to use with PyNaturalist as I have.

[pisum]

@augustinsoulard

Is it possible with the Inaturalist API to make requests to have my photos by species and only my photos.

the short answer is yes, it is possible.

how to do it depends on what skills and tools you have. if you’re going to hit the API directly, you would make a GET request to https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations, whose response includes URLs for “square” versions of photos. how you actually download photos, again, depends on your tools and skills. to get different versions of the photos, you would replace “square” with the other version you’re interested in:

@pisum

it should be noted that if the size of an uploaded photo exceeds a fixed limit, iNaturalist will reduce the size of uploaded photos to 2048px along the maximum dimension (height or width). so even though it stores “original”, large, medium, small, thumb, and “square” versions of each photo, the “original” version will have a maximum dimension (height or width) of up to 2048px. large, medium, small, and thumb, will have maximum dimension of up to 1024px, 500px, 240px, and 100px, respectively. square will be resized such that its minimum dimension is 75px, and then it will be cropped to a 75px square.

see https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/docs/#!/Observations/get_observations for available API parameters.