After realizing that many Italian common names of North American bird species are missing in iNat, I came across this tutorial explaining how to edit them manually. The process is great but error prone and labor intensive at scale, and I wonder if there’s a way of populating common names from an ex…

Look around in the forum, there are more discussions about common names, use of an ‘externa provider’ and for example this file https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NP-ApMmLqdyiZFdI4w28e89a3_2WVOxY/view from this topic https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/which-lexicon-to-use-frisian-or-west-frisian/20679 . …

Thanks for the pointers, @optilete . My question is not so much about common names in general, but about the possibility of adding them programmatically via the API.

I thought your Q was if bulk import of common names is possible and that answer is yes. I do not use API for this.

Programmatically adding missing common names

General

system Closed August 17, 2021, 5:46pm 5

This topic was automatically closed 60 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.

Topic		Replies	Views
Create a system for importing common names Feature Requests translation , common-names	10	2267	May 30, 2019
Can I bulk-import translations of common names of taxa? General	13	1400	July 20, 2022
Bulk Adding of Common Names General	18	1703	July 25, 2021
How to add common names with External Name Providers and Wikidata? General question	3	1066	July 15, 2019
How to Add a Common Name to a Taxon Tutorials	33	6417	April 4, 2025

Programmatically adding missing common names

Related topics