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Species List and Search Web Service API
API
This API provides a way to find out what species for which we hold data.
URL | description | status | notes |
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ws/data/species/list | Return entire list of species names | coded, not deployed |
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ws/data/species/find?match=<string to match> | Return species that match query string | coded, not deployed | No wildcard yet implemented in the matching string. |
parameter | required | default | value options | description |
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dataService | -proposed- | -proposed- | -proposed- | -proposed- |
collection | no | n/a | limits search for the species name to a certain collection | |
match | yes, for /find | n/a |
| string to use in matching against sci. name (and common name?); are wildcard allowed in the match string? |
locale | no | en_US | Java standard locale codes | locale in which to provide names in response and in which to match query string (when possible) |
format | no | csv |
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Test URLS
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entire list in CSV format | Generates 404 error. | |||
http://localhost What do we want here? 404? Redirect to /ws/data/species/list? | http://localhost/wsebird.org/ws1.0/data/species/list | entire list in CSV format | "csv" is the default format. | |
entire list in XML format |
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entire list in CSV format |
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entire list in CSV format | Bad format value is ignored and defaulted to csv. | |||
entire list in CSV format | "XML" is not a valid format option. Only "xml" and "csv" are valid options. | |||
| CSV list of species |
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http://localhost/ws/data/species/find?match=streptopelia&format=xml | http://ebird.org/ws1.0/data/species/find?match=streptopelia&format=xml | XML list of species |
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| CSV list of species list of 5 species in CSV format | There should be no difference in response for upper/lower case search strings. | ||
entire list in CSV format | Bad format value is ignored and defaulted to csv. | |||
empty list in CSV format |
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CSV Result Format
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<sci. name>, <common name> |
XML Result Format
No Format |
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<response> <header> <locale country="US" language="en"/> <timestamp>2008-02-21T12:37:32.546-05:00</timestamp> <criteria> <property name="match" value="kldsfsd"/> <property name="dataService" value="dskfjsdklfj" /> <property name="collection" value="dsafsfsdkljfslkfj"/> </criteria> <comment> </comment> </header> <result> <species> <scientific-name>XXXXX</scientific-name> <common-name>YYYYY</common-name> </species> <species> <scientific-name>XXXXX</scientific-name> <common-name>YYYYY</common-name> </species> <species> <scientific-name>XXXXX</scientific-name> <common-name>YYYYY</common-name> </species> </result> </response |