How to apply for an API App ID

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Welcome to the forum!

You don’t actually need an app to get your observations with true locations from the API.

Here’s an example for how to do it with python:

import requests

# authorization token comes from https://www.inaturalist.org/users/api_token
# must be logged in to get it, expires after 24 hrs

response = requests.get(
    'https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations?user_id=peterswart', 
    headers={'Authorization': 'eyJhXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXABC'}    
)

The true coordinates are in a field called private_location.

If you do still want to apply for app ownership, it looks like your account doesn’t meet the requirement for 10 improving IDs in the last month. Once you meet that requirement, you can access the form.

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