# Place\_id missing from identifications query

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/place-id-missing-from-identifications-query/292>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** api\
**Created:** [February 18, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/place-id-missing-from-identifications-query/292 "2019-02-18T02:04:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jwidness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jwidness](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jwidness)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/place-id-missing-from-identifications-query/292/1 "2019-02-18T02:04:45Z")

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The iNat api docs list user\_id twice under Identifications (actually three times – two are valid), but the description suggests one should actually be place\_id. Trying to query by place\_id doesn’t produce the expected filtered results, e.g. [https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?place\_id=21](https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?place_id=21) doesn’t filter to place\_id 21.

 ![place_id](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/1X/300aafbf0fd0ce92f51cdbf0791dd3f5a53438d5.png)

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**Author:** ![kueda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kueda/32/20_2.png) [@kueda](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/kueda)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/place-id-missing-from-identifications-query/292/2 "2019-02-23T00:03:27Z")

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Looks like @pleary fixed the `place_id` thing, fix for `user_login` forthcoming. Thanks for the heads-up. Regarding [https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?place\_id=21](https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?place_id=21), that’s a different API. The docs at [https://api.inaturalist.org](https://api.inaturalist.org) describe endpoints at that subdomain, e.g. [https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/identifications?place\_id=22](https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/identifications?place_id=22), which does return identifications made on observations from place 22 (Idaho, US).

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**Author:** ![kueda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kueda/32/20_2.png) [@kueda](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/kueda)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/place-id-missing-from-identifications-query/292/4 "2019-02-23T00:06:45Z")

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**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/place-id-missing-from-identifications-query/292/5 "2019-03-09T14:48:47Z")

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