---
title: "Fetch taxa metadata related to a users' observations"
method: GET
path: "/taxa/lifelist_metadata"
tags: ["Taxa"]
---

# Fetch taxa metadata related to a users' observations

`GET /taxa/lifelist_metadata`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.inaturalist.org/v2`
- URL: `https://api.inaturalist.org/v2/taxa/lifelist_metadata`
- Auth: API key in header `Authorization`
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/inaturalist/apis/inaturalist-version-2-api/docs/taxa/lifelist_metadata/get.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

## Query parameters

- `observed_by_user_id` union, required
  - integer
  - string
- `locale` string
- `preferred_place_id` integer
- `fields` unknown

## Headers

- `X-HTTP-Method-Override` string

## Response `200`

An array of taxa.

- ResultsTaxaLifelistMetadata
  - `total_results` integer, required
  - `page` integer, required
  - `per_page` integer, required
  - `results` object[], required
    - `id` integer, required
    - `name` string
    - `default_photo` object
      - `medium_url` string
    - `preferred_common_name` string, nullable

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/inaturalist/apis/inaturalist-version-2-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/inaturalist/apis/inaturalist-version-2-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/inaturalist/apis/inaturalist-version-2-api/revisions/f739db716aaf?raw)