Hello!
I’m doing a project at the moment and am interested in looking specifically at the comments that people make when they are identifying observations for people in Australia.
I’m hoping to pull a random selection of observations that contain comments attached to the IDs for a couple of animal groups. Is there any way to do this?
I’ll likely be doing this in R if that’s helpful.
Unfortunately, you cannot use the API to filter observations this way, nor can you search for identifications directly. You’ll have to fetch batches of observations, extracting whatever data is pertinent, until you have enough data. If you fetch the batches too quickly, you will get rate limited by the server, so maybe wait a few seconds in between.
I haven’t looked at the rinat package, but hopefully it makes this relatively easy.
Relevant forum post: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/exporting-comments/30603