How to send list of my IDs of a species to another person to confirm

I have identified a large number of swamp cicadas and would like to pass the list to another identifier to confirm. I cannot find a good was of doing this. My best shot is this:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&ident_taxon_id=469282&ident_user_id=dan_johnson

I use ident_taxon_id with the id of Swamp Cicada and identi_user_id with my id. The problem is this lists all observations which I have IDed as any species and someone has IDed as Swamp Cicada. So in practice some of the observations in the list I have IDed as Swamp Cicada and need confirming IDs and others I am disagreeing with someone’s Swamp Cicada ID. Is there any way of doing what I want? It would be nice if I could add a "ident_user_taxon_id=“dan_johnson 469282” and a "unident_user_taxon_id=“joe smith 469282” (I’m making up this URL option names here).

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In practice I think your URL is as close as you can get for a quick/convenient place for someone else to review/confirm the IDs.

The other main option which does only shows your swamp cicada IDs is: https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?taxon_id=469282&user_id=dan_johnson but each observation would have to be opened individually rather than checked quickly using the Identify modal. It also includes observations that are already Research Grade (not sure if that’s important to exclude for your purposes).

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Also you can create your own one-person project, like this: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/prokhozhyj-unconfirmed-tracheophyta?tab=observations .

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i think what you’ve described here is unfortunately the easiest way to do this, although it’s not super precise in terms of fulfilling exactly what you’re looking for. if you want more precision, you would need to use the API’s identification endpoint.

pull all the results for your identifications (ex. loop through all pages of https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/identifications?taxon_id=469282&user_id=dan_johnson&per_page=200), then pull all the results for the other person’s identifications (ex. loop through all pages of https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/identifications?taxon_id=469282&user_id=billreynolds&per_page=200), and then exclude results in your set that have a matching observation id in the other set (which can be done via, say, a SQL query or VLOOKUP in Excel or Array.find(key) in Javascript.

once you have a list of obs IDs that you want to lookup, you can just share the list of obs IDs, perhaps making sure that you can click on an obs ID to navigate directly to the observation’s URL. alternatively, you could group the obs IDs in chunks (maybe around 300 obs IDs each) and create several links to the identify screen that pull back specific observations. for example:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&id=54259799,54261030,54264838,54258480,54259085,54256138,54235902,54237224,54242140,54230631,54220535,54213509,54214228,29465163,27599315,51629723,54208586,54196490,54203068,54205074,54174973,54176555,54178879,54154908,54153917,54127259,54127400,54101524,54102578,54103366,54103451,54093044,54080213,54092468,54069316,54048580,54055934,54045235,54038876,54023835,54026005,53991846,54013423,54017903,54019116,53976698,53981519,53966622,53968211,53970501,53973192,53974740,53955251,53941686,53941830,53918422,53938968,53940166,53909557,53897744,53894854,53895924,53892347,53892421,53855476,53861791,53882924,53839107,53839584,53848933,53850500,53854450,53830610,28907290,53806468,53810284,53810705,53791570,53759488,53763350,53770169,53772582,53781963,3828485,38126134,49760999,51374302,52409646,32283376,32449111,33489049,33682097,34495630,31572733,31671932,31950945,32054403,31016164,31061126,31087941,31322787,31327125,30635605,30711098,30742326,30937436,30008653,30252416,27806292,28732157,29380668,29593595,29820224,15973939,16019299,16099597,16168937,14838639,15019252,15131959,15286091,15393852,7859979,7861147,7862139,7935879,4013410,4020614,4841237,7419174,7421092,7575604,3771368,3776743,3786221,3812803,53752663,53754212,53754805,53736915,16958763,53720943,53728378,53731941,15207377,15411052,15690519,15917691,15988742,16300047,16308399,16331542,28557131,30139696,3695906,3852129,3940883,3964083,4979095,7580090,7625201,8167252,8167840,8380795,15151659,15154375,118893,1897717,1907345,31169794,31602954,31827499,32644116,33173161,33962276,35399260,39638130,39907778,4950525,7639013,7964228,8036906,14366323,53694229,53710251,53716993,53720242,53722127,53669000,53673169,53673231,53674030,53684576,53642230,53635360,53600014,53615293,53615700,53615933,53624712,53586488,53590897,53597491,53597737,53559304,53566593,53559349,53563785,53564975,53576336,53541906,53553238,53530159,53532310,53506026,53506701,53514087,53515990,53516544,53489489,53499643,53478877,53481466,53470737,15321928,15224688,31880995,31686955,53460161,15424436,13600217,44364,338865,53425143,53428522,53418416,34171942,33432758,33433094,33441947,33573404,31509422,32393393,7796109,15261002,15261003,2937389,6820766,7494912,7616796,32318186,15120503,774507,3843951,16636959,17094648,31011768,34166446,34176062,39427591,373904,7622538,15985451,33288453,36194665,51900997,53260180,53260635,32169693,32239547,32239548,32659344,32715414,32783350,31433270,31496434,31721625,31789167,32001649,31015289,31052496,31090604,31118323,31318198,29519434,30252681,30490948,30502966,30933623,30936170,30964562,31004598,31004737,31007782,17759165,17780980,18439136,26551042,28285881,28627425

another possibly easier way to do the above is just to get your IDs (ex. loop through all pages of https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/identifications?taxon_id=469282&user_id=dan_johnson&per_page=200), translate that into a list of observation IDs, group those observations IDs in chunks (of, say, 300), and then create several links to the observation IDs, relying on the reviewed flag to filter out the observations that another identifier has already reviewed. for example:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&id=54259799,54261030,54264838,54258480,54259085,54256138,54235902,54237224,54242140,54230631,54220535,54213509,54214228,29465163,27599315,51629723,54208586,54196490,54203068,54205074,54174973,54176555,54178879,54154908,54153917,54127259,54127400,54101524,54102578,54103366,54103451,54093044,54080213,54092468,54069316,54048580,54055934,54045235,54038876,54023835,54026005,53991846,54013423,54017903,54019116,53976698,53981519,53966622,53968211,53970501,53973192,53974740,53955251,53941686,53941830,53918422,53938968,53940166,53909557,53897744,53894854,53895924,53892347,53892421,53855476,53861791,53882924,53839107,53839584,53848933,53850500,53854450,53830610,28907290,53806468,53810284,53810705,53791570,53759488,53763350,53770169,53772582,53781963,3828485,38126134,49760999,51374302,52409646,32283376,32449111,33489049,33682097,34495630,31572733,31671932,31950945,32054403,31016164,31061126,31087941,31322787,31327125,30635605,30711098,30742326,30937436,30008653,30252416,27806292,28732157,29380668,29593595,29820224,15973939,16019299,16099597,16168937,14838639,15019252,15131959,15286091,15393852,7859979,7861147,7862139,7935879,4013410,4020614,4841237,7419174,7421092,7575604,3771368,3776743,3786221,3812803,53752663,53754212,53754805,53736915,16958763,53720943,53728378,53731941,15207377,15411052,15690519,15917691,15988742,16300047,16308399,16331542,28557131,30139696,3695906,3852129,3940883,3964083,4979095,7580090,7625201,8167252,8167840,8380795,15151659,15154375,118893,1897717,1907345,31169794,31602954,31827499,32644116,33173161,33962276,35399260,39638130,39907778,4950525,7639013,7964228,8036906,14366323,53694229,53710251,53716993,53720242,53722127,53669000,53673169,53673231,53674030,53684576,53642230,53635360,53600014,53615293,53615700,53615933,53624712,53586488,53590897,53597491,53597737,53559304,53566593,53559349,53563785,53564975,53576336,53541906,53553238,53530159,53532310,53506026,53506701,53514087,53515990,53516544,53489489,53499643,53478877,53481466,53470737,15321928,15224688,31880995,31686955,53460161,15424436,13600217,44364,338865,53425143,53428522,53418416,34171942,33432758,33433094,33441947,33573404,31509422,32393393,7796109,15261002,15261003,2937389,6820766,7494912,7616796,32318186,15120503,774507,3843951,16636959,17094648,31011768,34166446,34176062,39427591,373904,7622538,15985451,33288453,36194665,51900997,53260180,53260635,32169693,32239547,32239548,32659344,32715414,32783350,31433270,31496434,31721625,31789167,32001649,31015289,31052496,31090604,31118323,31318198,29519434,30252681,30490948,30502966,30933623,30936170,30964562,31004598,31004737,31007782,17759165,17780980,18439136,26551042,28285881,28627425

here’s a wrapper page for the API endpoint that may or may not help you to view and use the API a little more easily: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_identifications.html?taxon_id=469282&user_id=dan_johnson&per_page=200.

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Excellent detailed information. Thanks! Will take some time to obsorb.

Thank bouteloua!

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