Skip to contents

Accessing the Record API

Obtain, count, summarize, and view specimen records.

idig_search_records()
Searching of iDigBio records
idig_count_records()
Count record endpoint
idig_top_records()
Top records endpoint
idig_view_records()
view specimen endpoint

Accessing the Media API

Obtain, count, summarize, and view media records.

idig_search_media()
Searching of iDigBio media records
idig_count_media()
Count media endpoint
idig_top_media()
Top media endpoint
idig_view_media()
view media endpoint

Other Helpful Functions

Search, identify fields, and identify the API version with these functions.

idig_search()
Basic searching of iDigBio records
build_field_lists()
Build fields and fields_exclude for queries.
idig_meta_fields()
meta fields endpoint
idig_version()
API version

Internal Functions

Functions that are used to streamline the above functions.

idig_GET()
internal GET request
idig_POST()
internal POST request
idig_build_attrib()
Attribution dataframe of iDigBio records query
idig_check()
check HTTP code
idig_check_error()
Check is the request returned an error.
idig_parse()
parse successfully returned request
idig_url()
base URL
idig_validate()
validate fields
ignore_unused_imports()
Stub function for passing import checks
ridigbio
Retrieve data from the iDigBio specimen data repository.