GBIF Biodiversity & Species Scraper

Search and extract species data and occurrence records from GBIF — the world's largest biodiversity database with 2.4B+ occurrence records. No API key needed.

Features

• 🌿 2.4B+ occurrence records from 80,000+ datasets worldwide
• 🔍 Species search — by scientific name, common name, or keyword
• 📍 Geographic occurrences — lat/long, country, locality, collection date
• 🏷️ Full taxonomy — kingdom through species, IUCN status
• 🌍 Country filter — focus on specific regions
• 📊 Collection metadata — institution, collector, dataset source
• ⚡ Official API — no authentication, no blocking

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
speciesQueries	string[]	[]	Search by species name
maxSpecies	number	20	Max species per query
includeOccurrences	boolean	false	Fetch observation records
maxOccurrences	number	50	Max occurrences per species
country	string	""	ISO country filter (US, BR, etc.)
hasCoordinate	boolean	true	Only georeferenced records

Example

{
  "speciesQueries": ["Ailuropoda melanoleuca"],
  "includeOccurrences": true,
  "maxOccurrences": 20,
  "country": "CN"
}

Output

{
  "type": "species",
  "scientificName": "Ailuropoda melanoleuca (David, 1869)",
  "canonicalName": "Ailuropoda melanoleuca",
  "kingdom": "Animalia",
  "family": "Ursidae",
  "iucnRedListCategory": "VU",
  "occurrences": [
    {
      "decimalLatitude": 30.7,
      "decimalLongitude": 103.0,
      "country": "China",
      "year": 2023,
      "basisOfRecord": "HUMAN_OBSERVATION"
    }
  ]
}

Use Cases

• Conservation research — track endangered species distributions
• Ecological modeling — species distribution models with real occurrence data
• Environmental assessment — biodiversity surveys for specific regions
• Education — explore taxonomy and geographic distributions
• Citizen science — aggregate observation data