Currently the API taxa endpoint returns the locale with each name when all_names=true, this is okay if the name is in one of the ~30 site translated languages (plus a few extra). But, for the other +400-600(?) lexicons it returns ‘und’ making it difficult to determine the language. Would it be poss…

I don’t know if this will work for your particular needs, but you can get the lexicon in a different place: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/8211.json [image]

@jwidness thanks, yes I am aware they are accessible via the other API. For the case when looking for missing lexicons , in Mammals for example, using this feature would take 56 requests or ~1 minute to complete, using the original API would take +11000 requests or +3 hours, at the recommended rate o…

it looks like this was implemented in the v1 API. however, v2 doesn’t seem to accept the all_names parameter at all. i wonder if this is intentional? (i used this to get the inactive scientific names associated with any particular taxon.) (v2 also doesn’t accept is_active=any, whereas v1 does. v2 a…

Include lexicon in API Taxa all_names search

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optilete April 15, 2023, 10:02am 4

If I was looking for an anwer for your questions I should use the download DWCA and use the tutorial https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/using-sql-to-query-inats-dwca-taxonomy-export/29377/18

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Include lexicon in API Taxa all_names search

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