Thanks, Tim. I'll take another stab at it this week if I have time. I'm hesitant to try the wider search approach because the list of plant species I have is pretty diverse and I don't think it could conveniently be split into a few taxonomic groups. I don't think it would make sense to try to download all 250M plant occurrences at the kingdom level either.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 3:23 AM Tim Robertson <trobert...@gbif.org> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > > > Thanks. Apparently even 300 is too long. > > > > For background info the issues related to 1) limits on length allowed for > HTTP GET (internally there is a GET call) and 2) the workflow engine > managing the context for the download imposes a limit. > > Being an asynchronous service, if you polled the API you’d also see the > error. > > > > I’m afraid you either need to reduce the size, or take the approach I > suggested of a wider search (e.g. a higher taxon) and then post filtering. > > > > I hope this helps. > > > > Thanks, > > Tim > > > > > > *From: *Benjamin Feinsilver <benjamin.feinsil...@gmail.com> > *Date: *Monday, 8 April 2019 at 05.07 > *To: *Tim Robertson <trobert...@gbif.org> > *Cc: *"api-users@lists.gbif.org" <api-users@lists.gbif.org> > *Subject: *Re: [API-users] Requesting Occurrence Data for Large List of > Species > > > > Hi Tim, > > > > I received an error message (via email) when attempting to post 300 taxon > keys: > > > > "We are sorry, but an error has occurred processing your download." > > > > Please see attached query file. > > > > Curl command: > > > > curl --include --user username:password --header "Content-Type: > application/json" --data @query_1.json > http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request > > > > I received a HTTP status code "201 Created." > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ben > > > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 3:52 AM Tim Robertson <trobert...@gbif.org> wrote: > > Hi Benjamin, > > > > Download will be best. > > > > However, there are limits and you will not be able to push 3000 in. > > You could either split it into groups of e.g. 300, or use a higher taxon > and then implement a post-filter to throw away those not in your list (the > latter is how I would do it). > > > > I am sorry for this nuisance, and this is a known issue that we do aim to > address: https://github.com/gbif/portal-feedback/issues/1768 > > > > Thanks, > > Tim > > > > > > *From: *API-users <api-users-boun...@lists.gbif.org> on behalf of > Benjamin Feinsilver <benjamin.feinsil...@gmail.com> > *Date: *Wednesday, 3 April 2019 at 09.33 > *To: *"api-users@lists.gbif.org" <api-users@lists.gbif.org> > *Subject: *[API-users] Requesting Occurrence Data for Large List of > Species > > > > Hello, > > > > If I have a list of around 3,000 species, and I would like to request > occurrence data for each species, is it more efficient to use the Search or > Download API? > > > > If using the Download API, could I include the list of species in an > external query file and use the "in" predicate? For example: > > > > { > "creator":"userName", > "notification_address": ["usern...@example.org"], > "predicate": > { > "type":"in", > "key":"SCIENTIFIC_NAME", > "values":["cat1","cat2","cat3"] > } > } > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ben > >
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