Insect.id

Insect search

This endpoint is alpha beta testing and can change!

Search insect knowledge base by query. Entities are searchable by scientific names, common names (in specified language), synonyms.

Entity name and query are always matched from the start of a word., i.e. "Lucanus cervus" is searchable by "lucanus", "lucanu", "cervus", "cervu", "lucanus cervu"...

get/insect_id/kb/insect/name_search

Request

  • Base URL: https://agents.kindwise.com
  • URL: https://agents.kindwise.com/insect_id/kb/insect/name_search
  • Auth: none required

Query parameters

qstring
Example:Lucanus
limitstring
Example:10

int (optional) - maximum of returned result, max. 20, default 10

languagestring
Example:en

two-letter ISO 639-1 language code (optional, default en) - language of common names can be multiple (up to 3), separated by comma - i.e. (en,de,sv)

thumbnailsstring
Example:true

bool (optional) - add for each result 64x64 thumbnail encoded as base64 image

Response

Basic

entities_trimmedboolean
limitnumber

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.