Dear Scott, Many thanks for your answer. I also added the "&highertaxonKey=6" param to narrow the results for plant genera only.
To be more precise what I exactly wish to achieve is as follows: 1./ I only want to search within the "Plantae" kingdom. 2./ Say, I look for the GENUS name "Adonis" but I only remember that the name starts with "Ado". 3./ So my ideal API call would run a wildcard search within PLANT GENERA names for "Ado*" and would result in a list of ALL (without limit) plant genera names starting with "Ado*". I played with the "/species/match", "/species/search" and "/species/suggest" sub-apis and with the "q" and "name" params. They don't accept wildcards and don't give the expected results for name chunks without wildcards. Now my only hope is that I left out some constellations or misused something. J?zsef 2017-09-06 23:21 keltez?ssel, Scott Chamberlain ?rta: > Have you tried something like > > http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=GENUS > > where datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c is for the GBIF > backbone taxonomy > > Scott > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:10 PM Szlamka J?zsef <szlajozs at gmail.com > <mailto:szlajozs at gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hello to all list members, > > I'm new on this list and also new to the GBIF API. I'd like to get a > list of all the genus names occuring in the GBIF database. After > several > hours of trying with the API, and no success, I found this mailing > list. > I hope that API guru members on the list can show me the right way or > tell if this is not possible at all. > > Thank you in advance. > > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org <mailto:API-users at lists.gbif.org> > https://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20170907/d06b85fc/attachment.html>
