iNaturalist Scraper
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iNaturalist Scraper
Scrape wildlife observations from iNaturalist. Get species identifications, photos, GPS coordinates, observer info, and quality grades for millions of sightings worldwide. Filter by taxon name, location, date range, quality grade, and photo availability. Ideal for biodiversity research.
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🦋 iNaturalist Scraper - Wildlife Observations
🚀 Collect wildlife observations from the world's largest citizen science platform. Get species names, locations, GPS coordinates, photos, observers, quality grades, and identification data from 100+ million observations.
Whether you are a wildlife researcher tracking species sightings, a conservation organization monitoring biodiversity, or an educator building nature databases, this tool makes it easy to collect structured observation data from iNaturalist.
The iNaturalist Scraper delivers scientific names, common names, taxonomic ranks, GPS coordinates, place descriptions, observation dates, quality grades (research, needs ID, casual), identification agreement counts, photo URLs, and observer details. Filter by taxon, place, date range, quality grade, and photo availability.
| Target Audience | Wildlife researchers, conservation organizations, educators, data analysts, GIS professionals, app developers |
| Primary Use Cases | Ecological studies, species monitoring, biodiversity mapping, seasonal pattern analysis, nature education, wildlife tracking apps |
📋 What Does It Do
- Collects scientific names, common names, and taxonomic ranks for observed organisms
- Extracts GPS coordinates, place names, and geographic information for each sighting
- Gets medium-resolution photo URLs for every observation
- Filters by Research Grade, Needs ID, or Casual quality grades
- Searches by date range to track seasonal patterns or recent sightings
- Includes identification agreement and disagreement counts from the community
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: createdAt, id, latitude, longitude, numIdentificationAgreements, numIdentificationDisagreements, observedOn, photoUrls, placeGuess, qualityGrade, scrapedAt, speciesGuess, taxonCommonName, taxonName, taxonRank, uri, userLogin, userName. All 18 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
- 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the iNaturalist Scraper - Wildlife Observations page on the Apify Store.
- 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
- 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
- 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.
⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.
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🆘 Need Help?
If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.
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