GBIF API beginners guide - GBIF Data Blog

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This a GBIF API beginners guide.

The GBIF API technical documentation can be found here. This documentation is nice, but you might be a bit confusing if you have never used an API before. This guide is will walk you through how to begin using the GBIF API from a non-technical perspective.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/gbif-api-beginners-guide/
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Thanks John! I think this will be very useful for users who would like to start with the API

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Thanks for this GBIF API teaser. Hoping it will attract more users to discover this wonderful tool. I would have added some Python/Pandas/Jupyter examples… People should know how easy it is to query GBIF API and get their results instantaneously. All Nodes managers should try it.

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You can now write and run your JSON-formatted download queries directly from GBIF.org: https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/request

This is a great way to use the API without having to learn a (new) programming language. You don’t need to use R or Python or another client nor do you need to worry about headers or logins.

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Hi,
Thanks for this post, very helpful.

Is it possible to get the " TAXON IDENTIFIERS" through the API? For instance, here https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/5285385 I don’t see all the identifiers that are listed here Pinus mugo Turra.

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We pull these identifiers from Wikidata: Pinus mugo - Wikidata (you can access the data in JSON: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData/Q147475.json)