Is there a way to export a member list with Curator Coordinate Access?

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The new-ish Curator Coordinate Access in the members list for a traditional project is very useful but is there any way to export members and the access they’ve allowed? That way we would not waste time adding observations that we cannot access the true coordinates of and could also message members who have not given us access and/or maybe ones who aren’t allowing us to add their observations and see coordinates.

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As far as I know, that can only be done with a script via the API not be done, even via the API (see comments below). I’m unclear on exactly what you want - how would an exported list be better than the existing project members list? It seems either way you’d need to look members up in a list to see if they’ve given coordinate access.

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If I can get the data into a spreadsheet then I can sort/filter to members who have not trusted the project, get their user ids, and message/tag them to trust the project as well as ask members who’ve only given us access to true coordinates if they add the observations to either add their observations or maybe change their trust category. With nearly 800 members and 27 web pages of members, this would be laborious to do manually.

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Yes, with that many members I can see the problem.

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i doubt there’s an existing tool or API route to handle this, but if you want to automate this a bit, you can still use some sort of RPA tool like Power Automate or else you can write some code to scrape the data.

i have examples of both approaches to get favorites here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-bring-your-favorites-into-the-explore-tab/52605/6. if you’re interested in Power Automate, you can search for my comments about it in various threads on the forum. i think one of them points to a good video that shows how to easily set up something that would scrape data from a webpage that displays structured data across many pages.

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I wonder if the code behind the Kildor project members utility could be modified to grab this.

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i don’t think so. as noted in my previous post, i don’t think the information is provided via the API. so if you want something automated, i think you need to scrape it one way or another.

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I stand corrected - I searched through the docs for API v1 and v2, and nothing seems to return trust settings of project members. (I corrected my initial comment above.)