thydel/irina

Table of Contents

• Inaturalist
  • TL;DR
  • Query API for androctonus bicolor
  • Build a shell script from this of all image URL
  • Find location ID for a continent

Inaturalist

TL;DR

The images

Query API for androctonus bicolor

curl -s 'https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/search?q=androctonus%20bicolor' | jq > androctonus-bicolor.json

• androctonus-bicolor.json

Build a shell script from this of all image URL

As all image have the same basename we must generate a new name using ID

jq='.results[0].record | (.name | sub(" "; "-"; "g")) as $name | .taxon_photos[].photo | "curl -so \($name)-\(.id).jpg \(.original_url)"'

The generated script

thy@tde-ws:~/usr/hub/work/ext/irina$ jq -r "$jq" androctonus-bicolor.json
curl -so Androctonus-bicolor-95813663.jpg https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/95813663/original.jpg
curl -so Androctonus-bicolor-91893919.jpg https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/91893919/original.jpg
curl -so Androctonus-bicolor-18915044.jpg https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/18915044/original.jpg
curl -so Androctonus-bicolor-91893920.jpg https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/91893920/original.jpg
curl -so Androctonus-bicolor-9548340.jpg https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/9548340/original.jpg
curl -so Androctonus-bicolor-18915047.jpg https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/18915047/original.jpg
curl -so Androctonus-bicolor-107142893.jpg https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/107142893/original.jpg

Use the script

jq -r "$jq" androctonus-bicolor.json | dash

Generate a page to show images

ls *.jpg | jq -Rr 'split(".")[0] | "- ![\(.)](\(.).jpg)"' > Androctonus-bicolor.md

• Androctonus-bicolor.md

Find location ID for a continent

• Found Is there a place where I can go to get a list of iNaturalist place_ids? on forum.inaturalist.org
• Then, from API Reference

curl -s https://www.inaturalist.org/places.json?place_type=continent | jq > place_type-continent.json

• place_type-continent.json

And a simple bash func

get-continent-id () { jq --arg continent ${1:?} '.[] | select(.name == $continent) | .id' place_type-continent.json; }

To augment the request URL with Asia place_id

thy@tde-ws:~/usr/hub/work/ext/irina$ curl -s "https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/search?q=androctonus%20bicolor&place_id=$(get-continent-id Asia)" | jq .total_results
0

But, zero match