Is there an easy way to download a list of a user's identifications?

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do you actually need to see their individual identifications, or are you just looking for a count of identifications by student?

if you only need the counts, you can get the aggregated data directly from the API. here’s a page that shows an example of such data in a human-friendly format: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_identifications_identifiers?own_observation=false&d1=2021-04-19T05:00&d2=2021-04-26T04:59:59&verifiable=true&user_id=uticabirder,pisum,arboretum_amy,sedgequeen,trh_blue,carrieseltzer,bouteloua,cmcheatle,dianastuder,jwidness,jdmore,kueda,kiwifergus,pleary,loarie,pisum,sbushes,lotteryd,cthawley,tiwane,zdanko

the two main issues here are:

  1. this particular endpoint currently won’t return more than 10 records. so if you have more than 10 students, you’ll have to make multiple requests, where each request will get up to 10 of your students.
  2. identifications may be recorded with the login of identifier at the time of the identification. so if anyone changes their user login, you’ll have to search by all variants of their login names. compare:

if you actually need the identifications, you can also get these from the API via a different endpoint. here’s a page that shows an example of such data in a human-friendly format: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_identifications?per_page=200&own_observation=false&d1=2021-04-19T05:00&d2=2021-04-26T04:59:59&verifiable=true&user_id=uticabirder,pisum,arboretum_amy,sedgequeen,trh_blue,carrieseltzer,bouteloua,cmcheatle,dianastuder,jwidness,jdmore,kueda,kiwifergus,pleary,loarie,pisum,sbushes,lotteryd,cthawley,tiwane,zdanko

take a look at https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/using-excel-api/22378.

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