Hi,
Lately I’ve been trying to fetch some data via the api. I understand I need to have an API key (Encyclopedia of Life) however after following the instructions I can’t seem to reach the page to generate one.
Is this link correct? If so I get 404 response. https://eol.org/services/
Generally I feel the documentation is a bit unclear but it seems like a great service though!
Guess I can go ahead and describe what I’m after as well.
I have a list of approx 10 000 species (i.e. a list of scientific names). I simply want to get the some basic traits for these species, such as size, weight, lifespan etc. From what I can see most of this data is present in the pages but I would of course want to automate this.
I don’t really see a simple answer to how to do this. What I was looking for was basically an API query where I input the species name, and extract all traits for that species (I of course understand if there are some steps in between). Looking at for example the alltraits files under Zenodo doesn’t really seem to hold that information either which I expected…