Observation detail

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/inaturalist-api/v1/observation" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/inaturalist-api/v1/observation", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/inaturalist-api/v1/observation");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/inaturalist-api/v1/observation",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "observation": {
            "id": 92440451,
            "uri": "https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/92440451",
            "user": {
                "icon": "https://static.inaturalist.org/attachments/users/icons/3243751/thumb.jpeg?1593169006",
                "name": "Jannik Peters",
                "login": "yonnix",
                "observations_count": 927
            },
            "taxon": {
                "id": 1081616,
                "name": "Vulpes vulpes crucigera",
                "rank": "subspecies",
                "photo": "https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/607195408/medium.jpg",
                "common_name": "European Red Fox",
                "iconic_taxon": "Mammalia"
            },
            "photos": [
                "https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/153063583/medium.jpg"
            ],
            "sounds": [],
            "license": null,
            "location": "52.2688736,10.5267696",
            "faves_count": 43,
            "observed_on": "2021-08-25",
            "place_guess": "Braunschweig, Deutschland",
            "quality_grade": "research",
            "species_guess": "European Red Fox",
            "comments_count": 6,
            "time_observed_at": "2021-08-25T07:14:00+00:00",
            "identifications_count": 16
        }
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-07T16:46:41.404Z",
        "request_id": "26a4a740-8db7-4b52-8aef-6e68b5ec680b"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Observation retrieved successfully",
    "success": true
}