iNaturalist

📸 Real response, captured by us

Not a mockup — this is what iNaturalist actually returned when we verified it on 23 Oct 2026 (in 1959 ms).

{
  "total_results": 395723525,
  "page": 1,
  "per_page": 1,
  "results": [
    {
      "quality_grade": "needs_id",
      "time_observed_at": "2018-08-31T16:28:00+05:00",
      "taxon_geoprivacy": null,
      "annotations": [],
      "uuid": "b506783f-d32f-464e-af2f-9064d88dc3f7",
      "observed_on_details": {
        "date": "2018-08-31",
        "day": 31,
        "month": 8,
        "year": 2018,
        "hour": 16,
        "week": 35
      },
      "id": 410243914,
      "cached_votes_total": 0,
      "identifications_most_agree": false,
      "created_at_details": {
        "date": "2026-10-23",
        "day": 23,
        "month": 10,
        "year": 2026,
        "hour": 12,

💻 Copy-paste code

Three ways to call iNaturalist — pick your weapon.

// iNaturalist — no build step, no library. Just fetch.
const res = await fetch("https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations?per_page=1&order_by=created_at");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

# iNaturalist with Python requests
import requests

r = requests.get("https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations?per_page=1&order_by=created_at")
print(r.status_code)
print(r.json())

# iNaturalist from your terminal
curl "https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations?per_page=1&order_by=created_at"

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