I manage a traditional project very closely, I’m constantly monitoring the new observations coming in and looking for new observations to add. Several times now, I have had issues with users mass adding observations (sometimes hundreds of observations) which do not meet the requirements for the proj…

the API will tell you who added it. for example, this indicates who added one of my observations to a project: https://api.inaturalist.org/v2/observations?id=333798261&fields=id,project_observations.all

What does it mean when it says “null” for the user_id? Just that it’s automatically added or something? https://api.inaturalist.org/v2/observations?id=338119499&fields=id,project_observations.all

[image] duncanross: What does it mean when it says “null” for the user_id? my guess would be that the user no longer exists in the system, but i’m not sure.

Is there a way to tell who added an observation to a project?

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Is there a way to tell who added an observation to a project?

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