How to search observations of several (not iconic) taxa at a time? (through web interface)

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I try to use the taxon_id parameter in observations searches.
In API docs “try it” option I can introduce several ids.

But I am not being able to translate this API search into a website url which returns observations:

https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations?place_id=6718&taxon_id=50863,48220,57774&order=desc&order_by=created_at

Shouldn’t this work for searching observations of either red/brown/green algae in Ireland, using the web interface? The following is failing:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6718&taxon_id=50863,48220,57774&order=desc&order_by=created_at

Thanks

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in the Explore page i believe you need to use taxon_ids for multiple taxa. don’t ask me why this inconsistency exists. there are other minor inconsistencies between API and Explore related to the default behavior of verifiable, spam, etc.

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Thanks a lot @pisum !!

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I am trying to learn this stuff as well. Is this what you mean? I entered &taxon_id= for each taxa and removed the commas.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6718&taxon_id=50863&taxon_id=48220&taxon_id=57774&order=desc&order_by=created_at

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Thanks @edLike but that is not working as I want.
I want to see all observations which belong to ANY of the 3 provided taxa.
Your link is only providing the 81 observations for the first one.
You can check that by removing the 2nd and 3rd taxon_id, like this:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6718&taxon_id=50863&order=desc&order_by=created_at
(which is also returning the same 81 observations).

But if you try it what @pisum suggested (taxon_ids=1,2 instead of taxon_id=1&taxon_id=2), it works like a charm:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6718&taxon_ids=50863,48220,57774&order=desc&order_by=created_at
579 observations are returned:

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if you’re trying to learn how to do some advanced querying of the Explore page in the website, you may want to read: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki-part-1-of-2/63 and https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki-part-2-of-2/18792.

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Thank you! I will put that info to good use.

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