rizqirizqi/scientific-name-fetcher

Fetch plants and animals scientific name information from the internet

Mgs. M. Rizqi. Fadhlurrahman

I am currently working as a Front End Engineer at Bukalapak. I majored in Computer Science at the University of Indonesia. My passion is web development and motion graphic design. In recent years, I have been doing some projects and freelancing in those fields. I am constantly looking for ways to improve something I love. The good thing is, I love to write lines of code. Whether to build something valuable and beautiful simultaneously or just tinker around with something interesting to make it more effective and efficient.

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scientific-name-fetcher's Issues

Adding colors to output

The User Interface can be made better if we add colored text to terminal

Search scientific name of an animal/plant local name

Given a local name (or maybe the location) of an animal/plant, get the scientific name and its corresponding information.

Move settings to .env

The current settings are hardcoded in the main.py file. It's better to move it to .env file. We can use python-dotenv to make it easier.

Enable CSV / Excel input file

The current input file is using simple txt. Some people may have a CSV or Excel file, so we may need to allow them to directly use it as an input.

Specify column name to parse from csv/xlsx

The current implementation use Names as column name when parsing the input. We need to allow the user to specify the column name and just use Names as default.

Add more information / validity check for each scientific-name

Currently scientific-name-fetcher is using

1. Wikipedia API to search for scientific name description
2. GBIF API to check for the validity of the scientific name

It will be good if we add more information or validity checks so that scientific-name-fetcher becomes more useful to the community.

Here are some APIs/Libraries that we may use:

• IUCN Redlist: https://apiv3.iucnredlist.org/api/v3/docs
• RBGKew POWO: https://github.com/RBGKew/pykew
• PyTaxize https://github.com/sckott/pytaxize
• Global Names Resolver http://resolver.globalnames.org/api

Implement a CLI for ease of use.

I think this would be more useful and easier to use with a CLI.

For instance, you could have a default behavior that would look up a single organism and print the info to the terminal:
user@host:~$ python3 main.py hydnum repandum
Hydnum is a genus of fungi in the family Hydnaceae. They are notable for their unusual spore-bearing structures of teeth rather than gills...

The current behavior could be invoked with its own command line switch, such as -b, for batch mode.
user@host:~$ python3 main.py -b input.txt

This also lets the user specify a different input file.

Additionally, behavior options could be overwritten on the command line:
user@host:~$ python3 main.py --no-gbif-search --no-auto -b my_long_list_of_names.txt

Or something like that. The Python argparse library could be used to easily implement this.

If you think this would be worthwhile, I can submit a pull request.

Add unit test

Just add a simple unit test.