Search for iNaturalist observations using the iNaturalist API
Contributed by:
Jofre Espigule-Pons and Phileas Dazeley
ResourceFunction["INaturalistSearch"][query]
gives a dataset with taxa occurrences of the specified query.
ResourceFunction["INaturalistSearch"][query,prop]
gives the property prop of the specified query.
Details and Options
ResourceFunction["INaturalistSearch"] utilizes iNaturalist's API to find observations of species and taxa.
The query can be specified using a taxon (as a string, Entity or an ExternalIdentifier for a Wikidata ID) or by All to include all possible taxa in the search.
ResourceFunction["INaturalistSearch"][query] is equivalent to ResourceFunction["INaturalistSearch"][query,"Dataset"].
Supported properties for ResourceFunction["INaturalistSearch"] include:
"Count"
total count of taxa observations of the specified query
"Dataset"
dataset with taxa observations of the specified query
"SimplifiedDataset"
simplified dataset with taxa observations of the specified query
"RawData"
raw data of taxa observations of the specified query
ResourceFunction["INaturalistSearch"] accepts the same options as Dataset for the "SimplifiedDataset" property.
Other options supported by ResourceFunction["INaturalistSearch"] include: