I try to read the “Latest” topics in the Forum just to see what others are finding out about iNat. I have found a few of these useful filters over time. Some of them are not available in the Filters window. - When I am identifying things, I sometimes want to filter out people. I won’t go into the r…

[image] ken_ohio: on=2025-07-23 it is also possible to fill in main filter. There are much more fields you can use in address, look to API docs , for example unobserved_by_user_id, to filter out all species observed by a user. Also acc_below_or_unknown is valuable, to remove all inaccurate ob…

see https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/search+urls

I created a Journal entry to track them https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/journal/noah_vale/113110-a-collection-of-tools-and-resources

I like to use “ident_taxon_id=” when identifying a specific taxon (instead of the automatic “taxon_id=”). This will include any observation with an ID of the selected taxon, so it will include observations with disagreeing IDs where the community ID may be at a broader level.

Thank you. I have looked at that API page because I have used the eBird API.

Thanks! This has the search urls and much more. I hope others see your journal.

What useful filters have you found to use in the browser web address field?

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fluffyinca August 12, 2025, 6:53pm 3

There are two forum posts listing and explaining all of those options. How to use iNaturalist’s Search URLs - wiki part 1 of 2

Topic		Replies	Views
Is it possible to filter out observations by a specific user? General	10	1261	April 30, 2020
Is it possible to filter my identifications? General web , question	7	1756	March 1, 2022
fixed categories possible? General	16	1894	August 15, 2019
Excluding self in search General	7	1300	August 7, 2019
Create Filter by Observation Field Feature Requests web	10	1364	May 12, 2024

What useful filters have you found to use in the browser web address field?

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