iDigBio Download API

iDigBio has four API’s:

1. Search API.
   -accessed through the ridigbio R package
   -query under 100,000
2. Download API
   - allows query over 100,000
3. Record API
   - used for returning raw data for a single record
4. Media APIs
   - used for returning raw data for a media record

# Example of Download API query

## Full text

Here I search for Mrs, Ms, and Miss in fulltext. Change the email@college.edu to your email address. This can be copy and pasted into your web browser.

 https://api.idigbio.org/v2/download/?rq={"data":{"type":"fulltext","value":{"Mrs","Ms","Miss"}}}&email={email@college.edu}

Note: Searching the two letters of “Ms” will yield way too many records

## How to format a query to match the portal To learn how to format the query, you can inspect a query from the web portal and view the Request Payload.

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Downloading all the plant specimen

Change the email@college.edu to your email address. This can be copy and pasted into your web browser.
This will take about 24 - 48 hours.

 https://api.idigbio.org/v2/download/?rq={"kingdom":["Plantae"]}&email={email@college.edu}