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OBIS Marine Species Occurrence Scraper

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OBIS Marine Species Occurrence Scraper

OBIS Marine Species Occurrence Scraper

Extract marine species occurrence records from OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System). Filter by scientific name, country, basis of record, and date range. Outputs taxonomy, geolocation, depth, and dataset attribution for 178M+ ocean observations.

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Extract marine species occurrence records from OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System) — a global, open-access dataset of 178 million+ ocean observations curated by an international research consortium under UNESCO.

What it does

Calls the OBIS v3 occurrence API and yields one normalized record per occurrence. Filter by scientific name, country, basis of record, and event date range.

Output fields

FieldDescription
scientificNameLatin binomial (e.g. Carcharodon carcharias)
kingdom/phylum/class/order/family/genus/speciesLinnean taxonomy
eventDateWhen the organism was observed
decimalLatitude / decimalLongitudeSampling location
countryISO country (3-letter)
waterBodyOcean / sea name
depthSampling depth in meters
basisOfRecordHumanObservation, MachineObservation, PreservedSpecimen, ...
individualCountSpecimens observed
datasetNameSource contributor
recordedByObserver / collector
licenseData license

Input

All fields are optional — leave empty to sample the entire global dataset.

{
"scientificName": "Carcharodon carcharias",
"country": "USA",
"basisOfRecord": "HumanObservation",
"startDate": "2020-01-01",
"endDate": "2024-12-31",
"maxResults": 500
}

Pricing

Pay-per-result at $0.003/record. Apify compute is billed separately by the platform.

OBIS data is published under open licenses (typically CC0 / CC-BY). Cite OBIS and the originating dataset when re-using. This Actor only fetches publicly-available data — no authentication is bypassed.