Reference

iNaturalist actually provides two APIs:

• The original, Rails-based REST API that they also use internally: it is very complete and provides read/write access, but is rather slow and sometimes inconsistent.

• The Node-based API allows read-only access to most iNaturalist resources, is faster and provides more consistent behavior than the REST API, but with fewer features.

Pyinaturalist provides functions to use both of those APIs.

API Documentation

• pyinaturalist.node_api module
• pyinaturalist.rest_api module

Additional Module Documentation

• pyinaturalist.api_requests module
• pyinaturalist.constants module
• pyinaturalist.exceptions module
• pyinaturalist.forge_utils module
• pyinaturalist.request_params module
• pyinaturalist.response_format module