Encounters

Create new encounter

Create a new encounter with associated media assets. Requires ReCAPTCHA validation for anonymous submissions.

post/api/v3/encounters

Request

Base URL
/ (relative, and the document was published on a file host, not at the API’s origin)
Auth
- API key in cookie JSESSIONID
- or none
TypeScript
https://skmtc.dev/wildmeorg/apis/wildbook-v3-api/docs/api/v3/encounters/post.ts
A function with typed inputs. Its response is checked against the schema.

submissionIdstring uuid required

UUID linking to uploaded files via ResumableUpload

assetFilenamesstring[]

List of filenames from the upload session

{
  "assetFilenames": [
    "image1.jpg",
    "image2.png"
  ]
}

Encounter created successfully

successboolean

statusCodeinteger

idstring uuid

UUID of the created object

class'encounters' | 'individuals' | 'occurrences' | 'annotations'

locationIdstring

For encounters only

submissionDatestring date-time

For encounters only

errorsobject[]

debugstring

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