Hello to everyone and thank you for this great site! I’m building a tool using the GBIF API and I have some questions about its usage.
First one: is it possible to do actual full text search on suggestions? E.g.
https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?q=Myrta&rank=GENUS
this correctly reports results.
https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/suggest?q=yrta&rank=GENUS
this does not return any result
Should I use a different syntax? Is that just not possible?
Thank you for your time!
The suggestion requires you to type the first letters of the word to work, so not providing the first letters will not give you any results. You could instead use the search function, e.g.: https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?q=yrta&rank=GENUS.
Thank you for your suggestion. I will try your solution as soon as possible and report back.
@hamblingreg52 I am not working full time on that project so I did not test yet. I will as soon as possible. Thank you!
Quick update: testing on the browser, I see that the provided URL is not equivalent.
As I only need to retrieve names and not other details, I’ll keep the suggest endpoint.
Thank you!
Thank you for testing this and I can see it was not what you were looking for since the search function only gives you the first fuzzy match. If you have not seen this blog post yet, it might be of value for future queries: (Almost) everything you want to know about the GBIF Species API - GBIF Data Blog
Hi, @cecsve I have started reading your given blog post. Seems pretty informative.
@zanardi Thanks for testing and sharing what you found.
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