Search UK National Biodiversity Network

Search UK National Biodiversity Network

nbn_search(
  sci_com,
  fq = NULL,
  order = NULL,
  sort = NULL,
  start = 0,
  rows = 25,
  facets = NULL,
  q = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

sci_com

(character) The query terms(s), a scientific or common name

fq

(character) Filters to be applied to the original query. These are additional params of the form fq=INDEXEDFIELD:VALUE e.g. fq=rank:kingdom. See https://species-ws.nbnatlas.org/indexFields for all the fields that are queryable.

order

(character) Supports "asc" or "desc"

sort

(character) The indexed field to sort by

start

(integer) Record offset, to enable paging

rows

(integer) Number of records to return

facets

(list) Comma separated list of the fields to create facets on e.g. facets=basis_of_record.

q

Deprecated, see sci

...

Further args passed on to crul::HttpClient.

Value

a list with slots for metadata (meta) with list of response attributes, and data (data) with a data.frame of results

References

https://api.nbnatlas.org/

See also

Other nbn: get_nbnid(), nbn_classification(), nbn_synonyms()

Author

Scott Chamberlain,

Examples

if (FALSE) {
x <- nbn_search(sci_com = "Vulpes")
x$meta$totalRecords
x$meta$pageSize
x$meta$urlParameters
x$meta$queryTitle
head(x$data)

nbn_search(sci_com = "blackbird", start = 4)

# debug curl stuff
nbn_search(sci_com = "blackbird", verbose = TRUE)
}