How to use iNaturalist's Search URLs - wiki - part 2 of 2

[sylvainm_53]

Good evening,
I’m trying to search for observations that don’t have a stage annotation (to fill in the missing annotations and thus improve the phenological graphs).
I’ve tried this : &without_term_id=1, but it doesn’t seem to work (exemple).
Could you help me?

[annkatrinrose]

I use the Identify link for that and change the filters. Click on “More Filters” and choose Without Annotation. You may have to limit to the group of organisms that the annotation is available for to avoid e.g. getting a bunch of plants and fungi when filtering for missing life stage.

[sylvainm_53]

Thank you very much @annkatrinrose !
I hadn’t noticed that the filters were different in the “identify” module.

[bobmcd]

@jdmore

Note that &without_field= and &without_field_id= are currently not implemented

Could the wiki be edited to reflect the recent change in &without_field=? - not sure of the status of &without_field_id=

[jdmore]

@bobmcd

Could the wiki be edited to reflect the recent change in &without_field=?

Done!

[bouteloua]

also updated https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/search+urls

[thebeachcomber]

@jdmore

Search by multiple user license types

Single license queries are already available from the Filters panels. To query for multiple license types:

• &photo_licensed=cc0,cc-by,cc-by-sa (example for all photo licenses accepted by Wikipedia)
• &photo_licensed=cc0,cc-by,cc-by-nc (example for all photo licenses accepted by GBIF)
• &sound_licensed=cc0,cc-by (example for multiple sound licenses)
  • Use lower-case license parameters to ensure functionality in Identify .
  • The license and licensed API parameters (for observation level licenses) are not currently supported in URLs.
  • If you want to search for content that has no license (aka all rights reserved), use photo_licensed=false.
  • The system default is all observations regardless of license.

am I correct in saying there’s no possible way to search for observation licenses?

EDIT: it would help if I actually read the text I quoted…

• The license and licensed API parameters (for observation level licenses) are not currently supported in URLs.

I guess this raises the question; why doesn’t this parameter work?

[bobmcd]

I know it shows up individually in the observation but is there a way to search Added by in fields? For instance. I would like to know how many bees (taxon_id=630955) I have added field Name of Associated Plant (7807).

Sorry if this has already been asked but I could not find it.

[ralfmuschall]

I’m just trying to see my IDs of insects where I forgot to mention if it is a larva or an adult.
The following URL finds such IDs without restriction of the IDer (the example is for weevils, but this doesn’t matter here):

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?iconic_taxa=Insecta&verifiable=true&without_term_id=1&taxon_id=60473

When I select one of the observations therefrom, look for the IDer name and add that to the URL, e.g.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?iconic_taxa=Insecta&verifiable=true&without_term_id=1&taxon_id=60473&ident_user_id=iwo2022

then I get the weevils idenfied by this user without life stage (e.g. starting from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/193825058 with the IDer given there) .

But when I insert my own username:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?iconic_taxa=Insecta&verifiable=true&without_term_id=1&taxon_id=60473&ident_user_id=ralfmuschall

I get no hits despite https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57808084 being an example.

[jwidness]

Try https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=false&iconic_taxa=Insecta&without_term_id=1&taxon_id=60473&ident_user_id=ralfmuschall

[ralfmuschall]

Still no hits, but I see some if I use the IDer I mentioned in my question instead of myself.

[pisum]

@ralfmuschall

I get no hits despite https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57808084 being an example.

this is a casual observation. so you need to make sure you include casual observations in your filter criteria (in addition to also making sure you pick up reviewed observations).

[ralfmuschall]

reviewed is the solution. I’ve tried (by removing and adding the reviewed-mark on the beetle) and came up with the URL that works in both cases:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=casual&iconic_taxa=Insecta&without_term_id=1&taxon_id=60473&ident_user_id=ralfmuschall&reviewed=true,false

The last item (reviewed=true,false) look silly but seems to be necessary.

[pisum]

@ralfmuschall

reviewed=true,false

this works in this case, but normally, i would use reviewed=any to get both reviewed=true and reviewed=false.

[ralfmuschall]

I just tried

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=casual&iconic_taxa=Insecta&without_term_id=1&taxon_id=48670&ident_user_id=ralfmuschall&reviewed=any

(the taxon_id is Noctuidae) which should have found

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/156074725
but didn’t.

Is there a way to enter the taxon_id in a way that it includes all subtaxa? I might create a comma-separated list of all major Endopterygota groups, but going down to families might be too much.

PS: I changed the quality_grade to any and now it seems to find also subtaxe, but I don’t know why. And why are some of my IDs “casual” and some “needs ID”? Does it depend on whether I said Lepidoptera or Noctuidae?

Currently I’m using

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?without_term_id=1&taxon_id=47157&ident_user_id=ralfmuschall&reviewed=any&quality_grade=any

which seems to work fine (I also removed the iconic_taxon field).

Btw., does Noctuidae still contain the same animals it did in 1963 when von Keler wrote his book? Maybe the tables in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleg and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauchfuß retroactively became wrong due to taxonomic revisions (I might put that second question over to Nature talk if nobody here has an answer).

[DianaStuder]

@ralfmuschall

And why are some of my IDs “casual” and some “needs ID”

Your ID is not Casual. Casual applies to the obs.
Captive? Or missing data - location or date ?

[frontyardscientist]

Can I search for observations I have marked as wild?

[pisum]

no, not directly. the best you can do is to look among observations you have reviewed and then look at each of those to see if you have marked them as wild. however, even this may not catch everything if you flipped the flag without actually marking the observation as reviewed.

[lj_mcleod]

Is it possible to use URL search strings to find ‘species’ that are not in a given project? I know that I can use &not_in_project to find observations that aren’t included but I’d like to look for species to provide a list of targets for observers.

[thomaseverest]

Welcome to the forum! Did you try looking at the species tab of the results?