If you have been redirected to this page, it is likely that your use of the GBIF services at api.gbif.org, www.gbif.org and/or tile.gbif.org has been temporarily restricted. GBIF provides free access to our APIs, but some queries or querying patterns cause a high load on our servers, and may be restricted.
In particular,
- search queries with a high offset (≥10,000) are limited. Users requiring all occurrence data for a species, area or other search should instead use the GBIF Occurrence Download API or Occurrence Snapshots
- automated scripts, bots or crawlers accessing the web portal, www.gbif.org, may be restricted (species, occurrence, dataset information should be retrieved through an appropriate API)
- excessive API queries, where data is readily available for download, may be limited, e.g.,
- The entire occurrence dataset is available for download through Occurrence Snapshots or via several cloud providers
- Checklist / species data may be downloaded from the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
If you have questions or believe that you are seeing this message in error, please contact helpdesk@gbif.org. If necessary, we may also be able to help you generate customized data downloads, especially for complicated and/or very large queries.
We thank you for your interest in using GBIF-mediated data and apologize for the inconvenience.