How to extract lists of species from a project?

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To all the tech savages out there, can someone teach me how to do so?

To be the very best, that no one ever was, and to catch ’em all,
I want to go to a project’s list of names, make a “CVS”, I believe it’s called, then compare it to the species I have already observed, and by that, to know which I am missing.

Thank you in advance :sunflower:

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If all you want to use this for is to see which species in a project you haven’t seen yet you don’t need to bother with spreadsheets, you can just do as follows:

  1. Go to the project page

  2. Click the “observations>>” button in the middle left

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  3. add “&unobserved_by_user_id=your inaturalist username goes here” to the end of the url

  4. Click the species tab to see the list of species

So for example clicking the observations button on the page for the project “California birds” gives me

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=5531&subview=map&verifiable=any

But if I edit the URL by adding “&unobserved_by_user_id=yongestation” to the end then click the species tab I get a list of all species that I haven’t seen yet:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=5531&subview=map&unobserved_by_user_id=yongestation&verifiable=any&view=species

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Or you can use my tool. Fill the form with your name, project, and select in “User contribution” field “Species not observed by this user in project“ or “Species never observed by this user“. And you get list of taxa.

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Unfortunately, the unobserved_by_user_id parameter does not work with exports. You can add it to the string, but the csv export request will ignore it.

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it’s not clear that the original poster actually needs to export data. it seemed to be contemplated mainly as part of a process to determine missing species. but if that determination can be made some other way, is an export necessary?

one thing to know about using this parameter is that it considers species that you have seen anywhere. so for example, if you’ve observed Taxon A but not in Park X (where others have observed Taxon A), then if you look for stuff in Park X unobserved by you, Taxon A will not be included in the list. if you want Taxon A to be included (because you’ve never observed it in Park X), then you need to use another tool like kildor’s above or https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/discover-how-many-of-the-top-100-most-observed-species-in-a-place-youve-spotted/66507.

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