Is it possible to create iNaturalist observations without applying with an app? I would like to create some way of uploading observations created in ESRI FieldMaps. The idea was to use some Python scripts in order to link vegetation sampling conducted via ESRI apps (FieldMaps/Survey123) with iNatur…

[image] mrpopp: unofficial iNaturalist Python API assuming you’re talking about pyinaturalist, @jcook is probably going to be the one who can provide the most information about it. i’m pretty sure that pyinaturalist can hit both the old deprecated version of the API and the current v1 API, a…

Reference info: https://pyinaturalist.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide.html#authentication https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api+reference#auth https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api+recommended+practices#authentication If you want auth to be 100% automated, you will need to register an OAuth2 …

@jcook – not exactly related, but do you know if there’s a way to use the API to attach an existing iNat photo record to an observation. for example, if i want to duplicate an observation without re-uploading / creating new photo records, or if i want to move photos from one observation to another (…

That sounds familiar… I’m fairly sure there’s a way to do this by referencing photo IDs, but I don’t remember the details off the top of my head. I’ll look into that some more soon and get back to you.

[image] jcook: there’s not going to be much practical difference between using the OAuth access_token vs JWT api_token, except that the JWT will need to be refreshed every 24 hours instead of every hour I’ve always used access-tokens rather than api-keys, but I have never known one to expire …

i didn’t try to verify, but i seem to vaguely remember that when i looked at the access token expiration way back in the day, it seemed to expire only once a new token was generated for the user / app (or i presume if the user revokes authorization for the app)… something like that.

No, currently, all access tokens remain valid no matter how they are subsequently used. I know this, because my app stores the access token in a config file and automatically fetches a new one after 24 hours. I have a few old config files stored in backups, and the access tokens contained within the…

[image] bazwal: The question is whether the current behaviour is intentional or not. Either way, the docs clearly need to be updated. hmmm… it’s probably not a great thing for there to be a lot of unexpired tokens out there. i think if they’re not expiring one way or another, making the docs …

[image] pisum: making the docs accurate to reflect the situation is probably a lesser priority than making sure tokens do expire It could be a long time before the implementation is actually fixed/changed, though. The docs can easily be updated right now, so that should be the immediate prior…

[image] pisum: but if you’re signed into iNaturalist, you could just manually navigate to /users/api_token, and then manually copy the JWT from the json response. i thought this was true, but i had never actually tried it (or maybe i hadn’t tried it recently). i tried it today, and when i tri…

iNaturalist API desktop usage without creating an App?

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iNaturalist API desktop usage without creating an App?

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