When I search this, I just get the spinning “searching” arrows in perpetuity. When I change it to just &user_id , no problem. Substituting other user IDs produces the same result. I tried the same thing from my phone without being logged in and still got the same result.
To follow up a little more I set up a search that would exclude all observations in that project that are NOT within chautauqua county, NY- should get zero results as the whole project area is in that county. Instead I get the exact same results from ¬_place_id=693 as using &place_id=693.
Ah, thanks. I guess since my actual username (which I guess is a “string”?) worked for the positive query it didn’t occur to me it wouldn’t work the same for a negative one. The place filter I apparently just fumbled entirely.
I’m still curious why results from me would be showing up at the genus level (for example, if I set rank=genus - for example, the Trichoderma observations show up. Is this an intended thing that I’m misunderstanding?
No - again this filter should be used with rank species to avoid getting genus results. Perhaps the API should be doing that itself. This is a parameter that probably should not have been documented in the API and perhaps should be removed. It is only used for one very niche feature in the Android app that probably doesn’t get much use - and since we don’t use it ourselves it doesn’t get the quality control other API parameters do.
Thanks - I appreciate the follow up. It’s helpful to know that it’s only intended to work for species.
For what it’s worth I like having access to this parameter, as it makes it much easier for me to find species to target in my area which I’ve not already seen (and where I’m at, most of the observed species are ones I’ve already observed - so there’s a lot to try and sort through otherwise).
That said, perhaps there’s a different or more recommended approach for getting a list of ‘not observed’ species for a given area which I don’t know about/
Is there a way to use taxon_name to search for a genus name that is reused in multiple kingdoms? E.g. genus Stellaria appears under both animals and plants. Without knowing the taxon_id, can I restrict the search to just plants? Otherwise the search fails and returns all taxons.
Search on Stellaria and both genera are in the drop down list. Select the one you want (chickweeds) and the taxon_id # appears at the end of the url. Use this taxon_id to specify your choice.
@apcorboy I can’t get anywhere with this either - tried some last night and again tonight - of course I am so novice that calling me novice is an exaggeration. One thing is though, I believe, that “&” needs to be between the (what I will call) conditions and not “,” - still does not make a difference but I believe that is the structure. Do you mind me asking why you wish to send a list of observations this way?
I just learned that &photos=false will find observations without photos (thanks @jwidness & @nicolasr).
My ctrl-f didn’t show it was already mentioned here, so I thought I’d add it (forgive me if it is already covered).
I can generate a list of linked observations from a field, but I want a species summary of the links on iNaturalist. (e.g.: given species x, I can download all observation numbers from the field “feeding on”, and from this list of observations, I want a species list [of species eaten by species x ])