API Documentation

This is preliminary and incomplete documentation. Unless otherwise stated, all methods return JSON, and support the "callback" parameter.

Object

Return information on an object.

api/id/<id>

Return object in JSON

http://bionames.org/api/id/d0459eea15b7045816902849b540421d

api/id/<id>/thumbnail

Return URL of thumbnail for image of object

http://bionames.org/api/id/d0459eea15b7045816902849b540421d/thumbnail

api/id/<id>/thumbnail/image

Return thumbnail image of object

http://bionames.org/api/id/d0459eea15b7045816902849b540421d/thumbnail/image

Authors

Return information about an author.

api/authors/<name>/coauthors

Return names of coauthors

http://bionames.org/api/authors/Darrel R Frost/coauthors

api/authors/<name>/publications

Publications by author

http://bionames.org/api/authors/Darrel R Frost/publications

api/authors/<name>/publications/years

Taxa published in papers with this author

http://bionames.org/api/authors/Darrel R Frost/publications/taxa

References

Methods specific to a references (articles, books, etc.)

api/publication/<id>/citedby

Return references that cite this reference

http://bionames.org/api/publication/d0459eea15b7045816902849b540421d/citedby

api/publication/<id>/names

Taxonomic names published by this reference

http://bionames.org/api/publication/d0459eea15b7045816902849b540421d/names

api/publication/<id>/text

Full text of this publication (if available)

http://bionames.org/api/publication/d3c7419c9b9dcd9d545d49fd1b2b13eb/text

Search

Search on a taxon name. Returns multiple types of object.

api/search/<id>

Return objects that match the search term

http://bionames.org/api/search/Pristimantis

Taxon name

Methods specific to taxon names

api/name/<namestring>/didyoumean

Name strings that are similar to query string

http://bionames.org/api/name/Simulium%20selwynense/didyoumean