Dear Markus, My idea is that based on the validation services provided by GBIF to implement a search form with similar functionality (autocomplete, etc.) as the "Search for scientific names" form at Catalogue of life: http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/search/scientific
What is your opinion, is this way with the GBIF suggest api plus client side filtering a proper way? Considering the possible number of unnecessary result records (everything where kingdomKey<>6) and the number of unnecessary fields in each record (everything except the GENUS field), wouldn't that be an unacceptable overload at GBIF side and performance / bandwidth issues at the requestor webapp side? Cheers: J?zsef 2017-09-07 11:47 keltez?ssel, Markus D?ring ?rta: > this is unfortunately not possible. > You will have to filter them clientside checking for records with > kingdomKey=6 or kingdom="Plantae" > > Markus > > >> On 7. Sep 2017, at 11:22, Szlamka J?zsef <szlajozs at gmail.com >> <mailto:szlajozs at gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> Dear Markus, >> >> Thank you very much. Do you have any idea, using the "suggest" API >> would it be possible somehow to filter the results for the Plantae >> kingdom only? >> >> J?zsef >> >> >> 2017-09-07 10:17 keltez?ssel, Markus D?ring ?rta: >>> Hi J?zsef, >>> >>> the GBIF API hardly anywhere accepts wildcards. Apart from fuzzy >>> matching entire words the only place you can use is the suggest API >>> which should help you with your problem. >>> >>> It is a kind of autocomplete and you have to match the beginning of >>> a word. It wont match in the middle or end. It does match on all >>> words or tokens of a string, so for a species name it will match the >>> genus part, the epithet or even the authorship. Results are >>> prioritized with author based matches coming last and higher ranks >>> being more important. >>> >>> Here is an example: >>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado >>> >>> The suggest API only allows you to retrieve 100 records though, but >>> you can page through results up to 100.000 records max: >>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado&limit=100 >>> -> returns first 100 genera starting with Ado >>> >>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado&limit=100&offset=100 >>> -> returns 49 more genera starting with Ado >>> >>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS&q=Ado&limit=100&offset=200 >>> -> returns 0 genera as expected >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Markus >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 7. Sep 2017, at 08:36, Szlamka J?zsef <szlajozs at gmail.com >>>> <mailto:szlajozs at gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear Scott, >>>> >>>> Many thanks for your answer. I also added the "&highertaxonKey=6" >>>> param to narrow the results for plant genera only. >>>> >>>> To be more precise what I exactly wish to achieve is as follows: >>>> >>>> 1./ >>>> I only want to search within the "Plantae" kingdom. >>>> >>>> 2./ >>>> Say, I look for the GENUS name "Adonis" but I only remember that >>>> the name starts with "Ado". >>>> >>>> 3./ >>>> So my ideal API call would run a wildcard search within PLANT >>>> GENERA names for "Ado*" and would result in a list of ALL (without >>>> limit) plant genera names starting with "Ado*". >>>> >>>> I played with the "/species/match", "/species/search" and >>>> "/species/suggest" sub-apis and with the "q" and "name" params. >>>> They don't accept wildcards and don't give the expected results for >>>> name chunks without wildcards. >>>> >>>> Now my only hope is that I left out some constellations or misused >>>> something. >>>> >>>> J?zsef >>>> >>>> >>>> 2017-09-06 23:21 keltez?ssel, Scott Chamberlain ?rta: >>>>> Have you tried something like >>>>> >>>>> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS >>>>> >>>>> where datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c is for the >>>>> GBIF backbone taxonomy >>>>> >>>>> Scott >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:10 PM Szlamka J?zsef <szlajozs at gmail.com >>>>> <mailto:szlajozs at gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello to all list members, >>>>> >>>>> I'm new on this list and also new to the GBIF API. I'd like to >>>>> get a >>>>> list of all the genus names occuring in the GBIF database. >>>>> After several >>>>> hours of trying with the API, and no success, I found this >>>>> mailing list. >>>>> I hope that API guru members on the list can show me the right >>>>> way or >>>>> tell if this is not possible at all. >>>>> >>>>> Thank you in advance. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> API-users mailing list >>>>> API-users at lists.gbif.org <mailto:API-users at lists.gbif.org> >>>>> https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> API-users mailing list >>>> API-users at lists.gbif.org <mailto:API-users at lists.gbif.org> >>>> https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users >>> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20170907/d8f094b9/attachment.html>
