Splitting this from a feature request . @pisum crafted a nice little tool for making iNat observations a bit more printer-friendly.

ok. i have an early prototype of something that will pull back observations in what will hopefully be a more printer friendly format. a couple of screenshots are attached, and the code is pasted below. you can copy the code, paste it into a text editor like Notepad or an HTML editor, and save it as …

Your HTML file works great when I enter a User ID, for example dellfalconer. However, nothing seems to happen when I enter an Observation ID, for example 831040. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks.

oops. it’s fixed now. try the updated code from the earlier post. there was a loop that got called only if the result set was >1 instead of >0.

Works great now! This does exactly what it should do. I will be using this in the future for the purpose I mentioned above. Thanks!

here’s the latest version. it displays and sorts dates a little more elegantly, allows you to include/exclude certain sections, and adds maps. you’re welcome to use and tweak without attribution (except that you should keep attribution for the third party stuff i included). i probably won’t make mor…

Thank you so much for your work on this @pisum ! This will be hugely helpful in my work and all kinds of other contexts.

Very cool. When I run a query it maxes out at the 15 and nothing I do will load more results. Is there something I’m missing (very likely)? Note: If I run the query using a place ID I can get more than 15 to load, but if I run the query using a user ID, or if I include more than one place ID it …

[image] earthknight: If I run the query using a place ID I can get more than 15 to load, but if I run the query using a user ID, or if I include more than one place ID it freezes at 15. let me know which user ID and which place IDs are freezing for you. i’m thinking there might be an observat…

I was testing it on my user ID and the place IDs are for the project I’m running: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/cat-ba-island-and-surrounding-area I tried that with the project and as the 3 place IDs separated by commas, as suggested, both with and without spaces.

Tool for making observations printer-friendly

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pisum June 14, 2019, 9:04pm 6

you’re welcome. i’m glad this works for you. i’ll continue to refine this as i get time, and i’ll update here.

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Tool for making observations printer-friendly

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