Possible to download photos for all observations from my project?

[Morgan Gostel]

Hello,

I recently created a project for iNaturalist and have a team of interns making observations with me. We are trying to download/export the photos that go with each observation and I don't see an option for this. I can get my own photos, but I cannot seem to bulk download/export observations from others contributing to the project.

Could you please point me in the right direction?

Thank you!

Morgan

[Morgan Gostel]

Hello – just wanted to check back in about this question – could anyone advise?

Thanks!

Morgan

[Scott Loarie]

Hi Morgan,

There's currently no way to download these photos from the site, but you can get the links to the photos as follows:

When you export the observations either from http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export or from the links form your project page, the CSV you get has an image_url column with a link to the photos.

There are browser plugins, little freeware programs, or you can write very simple scripts (perl/php etc.) that fetch photos using a list of URLs

-Scott

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[Morgan Gostel]

Hello Scott,

Thank you so much – this is very helpful and I really appreciate it! This will work just fine!

Best,

Morgan

[Armand Turpel]

Hi Scott,
There is only the url of the first image in the csv when there are more images per observation.

[Scott Loarie]

Hi Armand,

I believe that's correct

[Armand Turpel]

Here (attached file) a simple php script for download all photos from a csv observations export.
You have to install a php interpreted on your computer.
The csv file must be named "observations.csv" and it must contains at least the "id" and "image_url" field.
run: php photo_download.php
The script download all photos in the same directory as the php script.

[Dan Morris]

Here's a Python alternative to Armand's PHP script (for downloading all the images in an exported observations file).