ropensci/mregions

API OBIS not working: Could not resolve host: api.iobis.org

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salvafern commented

Hi @pieterprovoost,

Just ran one of the examples of the documentation and this doesn't work

library(mregions)
mr_obis_eez_id("bulgarian exclusive economic zone")
#> Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle): Could not resolve host: api.iobis.org

Created on 2022-03-03 by the reprex package (v2.0.0)

I tested both on windows and ubuntu, using the latest version of curl. Can you confirm if this is a problem of the OBIS API?

Thanks!

pieterprovoost commented

The base URL for the OBIS API is https://api.obis.org/ (not iobis). But I recommend removing OBIS functionality from mregions, if necessary I'll provide a replacement in the robis package.

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salvafern commented

Ok thanks, we will be working in an update of the package in the following months. We can deprecate this function and maybe move it to robis.

salvafern commented

Hi again @pieterprovoost

Im trying to add a quick fix for this issue. I can see the requests are going towards https://api.obis.org/eez But doesn't seem to exists.

Is there any equivalent service in the OBIS API? Otherwise I suggest we shut down this function already.

Thanks!

pieterprovoost commented

You could use https://api.obis.org/area instead, but again, I recommend removing this from the package. This is totally unrelated to Marine Regions.

salvafern commented

I have fixed the issue, but I noticed that https://api.obis.org/area does not include the EEZs, thus the function does not make much sense now. I have removed mr_obis_eez_id from mregions.

The function has not been working for a while and we haven't received any feedback, so I assume it was not being used. If anyone experience a problem, feel free to reopen this issue.

Thanks for the help @pieterprovoost !