Hi everyone, I’m not very good at Python development, but I have to admit that with the help of today’s conversational engines, it’s pretty easy to get things done. For a specific need, I need to export a list of my observations according to certain criteria, in XLSX format. The code below works …

It worked for me when I swapped [image] sylvainm_53: ancestors = taxon_info.get("taxon", {}).get("ancestors", []) for ancestors = taxon_info.get("results", {})[0].get("ancestors", []) (and also added a time.sleep() into get_taxon_info, and also removed the encoding from to_excel) [image] …

@pisum @Quercitron I think you’re comfortable with the API and Python :wink:

this is my relevant code from https://github.com/jumear/stirpy/blob/main/content/iNat_APIv1_get_observations.ipynb (which can also be viewed as a web-based Jupyter workbook from https://jumear.github.io/stirpy/lab/index.html?path=iNat_APIv1_get_observations.ipynb ): def add_obs_taxon_ancestors(r): …

Thank you @jwidness and @pisum :grinning: Bravo: you’re stronger than the robots! (and than me too, but that’s no badge of honour). I’ve managed to get your adaptation up and running, @jwidness [image] jwidness: and also added a time.sleep() into get_taxon_info What is the rule here? How l…

[image] sylvainm_53: How long does time.sleep() last? time.sleep() takes seconds, so time.sleep(1) sleeps for 1 second. Since the API docs recommend no more than 60 calls per minute, I put in a 1 second sleep. If you intend to do this again in the future or want to run it on a larger dataset…

[image] sylvainm_53: I don’t really understand replace your get_taxon_info function with my add_obs_taxon_ancestors function replace your Extract taxon ID and Get taxon information sections with add_obs_taxon_ancestors(result) in your observation data dictionary defintion, set "family_name":…

@sylvainm_53 , if you would like to write Python code to perform other tasks with observations, you could consider incorporating Python classes to perform some of these tasks. For example, create an Observation class to represent each observation, and a SetOfObservations class to represent a set of o…

For what it’s worth, pyinaturalist has model objects built in, and handles pagination, caching, rate-limiting, common type conversions, etc. And pyinaturalist-convert can help with exporting to other formats, including xlsx. Here’s a slightly simpler (but still not ideal) example of getting family …

[image] jcook: I’d be open to adding similar behavior to pyinaturalist if there’s any interest. i think that would be useful. it seems to be a thing that’s been requested more than once (although not necessarily for Python specifically): https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-ancestor-rank-lev…

iNaturalist API with Python : get family name from observations?

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