idigbio/idigbio-search-api repository overview

⁠idb-search-api

The iDigBio search api is a nodejs that accepts search requests and translates those into backend search requests.

⁠API Users

Developers who are interested in using the public iDigBio Search API / iDigBio API v2 service should consult the wiki which includes a list of endpoints, parameters, and query format.

https://github.com/idigbio/idigbio-search-api/wiki⁠

⁠Development

The remainder of this document is for developers who are interested in the internals of the API code itself.

⁠Dependencies

To install and run on Ubuntu 14.04:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test;
sudo apt-get update;
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8;
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 20;
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8 20;
sudo g++ --version;
sudo apt-get update -qq;
sudo apt-get install -qq libjpeg8-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libpng12-dev libcairo-dev libgif-dev libmapnik2.2 libmapnik2-dev
npm install
npm start

On Ubuntu 16.04 it may work directly, you'll still probably need libjpeg-turbo8-dev libpng12-dev libgif-dev.