Python client for the GBIF API

Source on GitHub at sckott/pygbif

Other GBIF clients:

• R: rgbif, ropensci/rgbif
• Ruby: gbifrb, sckott/gbifrb

Stable from pypi

pip install pygbif

Development version

[sudo] pip install git+git://github.com/sckott/pygbif.git#egg=pygbif

pygbif is split up into modules for each of the major groups of API methods.

• Registry - Datasets, Nodes, Installations, Networks, Organizations
• Species - Taxonomic names
• Occurrences - Occurrence data, including the download API
• Maps - Maps, get raster maps from GBIF as png or mvt

You can import the entire library, or each module individually as needed.

In addition there is a utils module, currently with one method: wkt_rewind, and a caching method to manage whether HTTP requests are cached or not. See ?pygbif.caching.

registry module API:

• organizations
• nodes
• networks
• installations
• datasets
• dataset_metrics
• dataset_suggest
• dataset_search

Example usage:

from pygbif import registry
registry.dataset_metrics(uuid='3f8a1297-3259-4700-91fc-acc4170b27ce')

species module API:

• name_backbone
• name_suggest
• name_usage
• name_lookup
• name_parser

Example usage:

from pygbif import species
species.name_suggest(q='Puma concolor')

registry module API:

• search
• get
• get_verbatim
• get_fragment
• count
• count_basisofrecord
• count_year
• count_datasets
• count_countries
• count_schema
• count_publishingcountries
• download
• download_meta
• download_list
• download_get

Example usage:

from pygbif import occurrences as occ
occ.search(taxonKey = 3329049)
occ.get(key = 252408386)
occ.count(isGeoreferenced = True)
occ.download('basisOfRecord = LITERATURE')
occ.download('taxonKey = 3119195')
occ.download('decimalLatitude > 50')
occ.download_list(user = "sckott", limit = 5)
occ.download_meta(key = "0000099-140929101555934")
occ.download_get("0000066-140928181241064")

maps module API:

• map

Example usage:

from pygbif import maps
out = maps.map(taxonKey = 212, year = 1998, bin = "hex",
       hexPerTile = 30, style = "classic-noborder.poly")
out.response
out.path
out.img
out.plot()

utils module API:

• wkt_rewind

Example usage:

from pygbif import utils
x = 'POLYGON((144.6 13.2, 144.6 13.6, 144.9 13.6, 144.9 13.2, 144.6 13.2))'
utils.wkt_rewind(x)

• Scott Chamberlain
• Robert Forkel
• Jan Legind
• Stijn Van Hoey
• Peter Desmet
• Nicolas Noé

• License: MIT, see LICENSE file
• Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.