National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Taxonomy API
#### Options to download taxonomy data.These taxonomy services allow you to get taxonomy data as a data report or download taxonomy data as a taxonomy data package, for taxonomic nodes in NCBI Taxonomy.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Taxonomy API is one of 14 APIs that National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Taxonomy. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and rate-limit docs.
This API exposes 20 operations across 20 paths, and defines 60 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version v2.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/v2.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Taxonomy API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the query as api_key (ApiKeyAuth).
An API key is passed in the header as api-key (ApiKeyAuthHeader).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 20
Across 20 paths, the API surfaces 20 operations — 10 GET, 10 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Options to download taxonomy data. These taxonomy services allow you to get taxonomy data as a data report or download taxonomy data as a taxonomy data package, for taxonomic node…
Schemas 60
The contract defines 60 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are v2TaxonomyNode (17 properties), v2reportsTaxonomyNode (15 properties), v2reportsNameAndAuthority (12 properties), v2reportsClassification (11 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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