API

[Fuser55]

Hello,

I am working on a small project for an educational program. I've only been coding for about 3 weeks.

The goal of my project is to display animal location around the user's input location. I used the Maps API to take user input for user location and also did autolocate all through the JavaScript API. 

All I need now is to display actual animal locations on the map. I was planning on using iNaturalist API to get animal location but I have no idea how to implement it to a JavaScript environment if the API is made on rails. I'm using Google AppEngine to host my web app and i am currently using just HTML/CSS, JS and python.

Any advice on how to implement the API to my application so that it would display observations on my map would be amazing. Thank you!!!

[Alex Shepard]

I would start with the inaturalistjs library: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalistjs

Good luck!

[Ken-ichi]

We have some documentation for developers at
http://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers. Like Alex said you can
use our JS package, particularly if you're using npm, but if you just
want to show points on a Google Map you might just want to use our
Node API, which will give you observations in JSON format.

Example (first page of monarch obs):
http://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations?taxon_id=48662
Example (first page of monarch obs in California):
http://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations?taxon_id=48662&place_id=14
Docs: http://api.inaturalist.org/v1/docs/#/Observations

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:24 PM, Alex Shepard <al...@inaturalist.org> wrote:
>
> I would start with the inaturalistjs library: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalistjs
>
> Good luck!
>

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