Is there a way to search/filter projects by anything other than name?

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I love iNat because of how well I can filter and categorize observations, and I know there are many cool and fun projects to join, but trying to find them is a nightmare… I either have to know the name of the project to be able to find it, or I have to look through thousands of projects 20 at a time…

I know that in the app I can find nearby projects, but I want to be able to filter by other stuff as well and use more than 1 filter at the same time (ie creation date and location at the same time). I also don’t know if I can order by title or creation date when searching projects by name, which makes it very hard to find the umbrella projects for bioblitzes (is that the plural for bioblitz?)

Most of the interesting projects I found were either in the featured page or shared here in the forum, but it’s still very hard to find them here as most of the times they are casually linked in the replies of a post that has nothing to do with projects.

So, I know iNat has different modules (like the identify module) and a way to edit URLs to filter through observation fields that aren’t available in the main filters, but is there such a thing for browsing projects?

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the API offers a little bit more flexibility when searching for projects (but not a lot). here’s a page that may help present the results in a more human-friendly format: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_projects.

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you can specify an order_by parameter for =created, =updated, etc., but not =title. you can’t specify order=asc or order=desc. look at the API documentation for additional parameters available.

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Thank you so much! That’s what I needed! :grin:

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