BIE Search API

Web services for searching taxonomic concepts and general search across the system. Please see the API page for full details.

Taxon details	GET JSON	/bie-index/species/{GUID}
Taxon details - simple	GET JSON	/bie-index/species/shortProfile/{GUID}
Search	GET JSON	/bie-index/search?q={search terms}
Autocomplete	GET JSON	/bie-index/auto?q={search terms}
Classification	GET JSON	/bie-index/classification/{GUID}
Child concepts	GET JSON	/bie-index/childConcepts/{GUID}
Image search	GET JSON	/bie-index/imageSearch/{GUID}
Image link	GET IMG	/bie-index/species/image/[thumbnail|large|small]/{GUID}
Update Image	POST IMG	/bie-index/import/updateImages { "guidImageList": [ {"guid": GUID, "image": "63c06642-ab33-48b9-b04b-2f321d24f104"} ] }
Bulk lookup by GUID	POST JSON	/bie-index/species/guids/bulklookup [ "guid", ...]
Bulk lookup by name	POST JSON	/bie-index/species/lookup/bulk { names: [ "name", ... ], "vernacular": false }
Habitat list	GET JSON	/bie-index/habitats
Habitat tree	GET JSON	/bie-index/habitats/tree
Habitats for species	GET JSON	/bie-index/search/getHabitatIDs/{GUID}
Habitat details	GET JSON	/bie-index/search/getHabitat/{GUID}
Recognised ranks	GET JSON	/bie-index/ranks
Indexed fields	GET XML	/bie-index/indexFields
Species groups	GET JSON	/bie-index/subgroups.json