How to search for and/or sort by: number of active IDs / number of comments

I still don’t have an answer to my question : How to use iNaturalist's Search URLs - wiki part 1 of 2, so I am opening a new topic :

Is there a way to search for and/or sort by:

  • number of active IDs
  • number of comments

These numbers already show up in the results of any search, e.g.:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=table&user_id=t_e_d&verifiable=any
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as far as i know, regular users can’t make a request for a set of observations in a way that the server will filter or sort by number of comments / identifications for you. however, you can get the number of comments / identifications from the response of API requests from GET /v1/observations, and that will allow you to then sort or filter that result set on your own however you like.

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I have no idea what you’re talking about.

if that’s the case, then i think the answer is that for most folks, there’s probably not a straightforward way to do what you’re asking for.

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i forgot about this thing that i built a while back, but you can get number of identifications per observation (as well as some other information) using this: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_observations?options=idextra&per_page=200&user_id=t_e_d&idextra_user_id=t_e_d. (to filter or sort by number of IDs, you’d still have to do this separately on your own though.)

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