GBIF Ruby client; docs: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/gbifrb/0.1.0
gbifrb is a low level client for the GBIF API
Other GBIF API clients:
For changes see the Changelog
Methods in relation to GBIF API routes
registry
/node - Gbif::Registry.nodes/network - Gbif::Registry.networks/installations - Gbif::Registry.installations/organizations - Gbif::Registry.organizations/dataset_metrics - Gbif::Registry.dataset_metrics/datasets - Gbif::Registry.datasets/dataset_suggest - Gbif::Registry.dataset_suggest/dataset_search - Gbif::Registry.dataset_searchspecies
/species/match - Gbif::Species.name_backbone/species/suggest - Gbif::Species.name_suggest/species/search - Gbif::Species.name_lookup/species - Gbif::Species.name_usageoccurrences
/search - Gbif::Occurrences.search/get - Gbif::Occurrences.get/get_verbatim - Gbif::Occurrences.get_verbatim/get_fragment - Gbif::Occurrences.get_fragment
gem install gbifrb
git clone git@github.com:sckott/gbifrb.gitcd gbifrbrake install
Nodes
require 'gbifrb'registry = Gbif::Registryregistry.nodes(limit: 5)
Networks
registry.networks(uuid: '16ab5405-6c94-4189-ac71-16ca3b753df7')
GBIF backbone
species = Gbif::Speciesspecies.name_backbone(name: "Helianthus")
Suggester
species.name_suggest(q: "Helianthus")
Lookup
species.name_lookup(q: "Helianthus")
Lookup example with more parameters: name usages of plants where accepted scientific name includes ‘reptans’:
species.name_lookup(q: 'reptans', higherTaxonKey: 6, nameType: 'SCIENTIFIC', status: 'ACCEPTED')
Name usage (/species)
species.name_usage(name: "Helianthus")
Name usage example with more parameters: name usages of ‘Andropogon’ in Database of Vascular Plants of Canada (VASCAN) checklist:
species.name_usage(name: 'Andropogon', datasetKey: '3f8a1297-3259-4700-91fc-acc4170b27ce')
occ = Gbif::Occurrencesocc.search(taxonKey: 3329049)occ.search(taxonKey: 3329049, limit: 2)occ.search(scientificName: 'Ursus americanus')
species = Gbif::Speciesspecies.name_backbone("Helianthus", verbose: true)