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+/**
+ * The GlobalBiodiversity service provides information on millions of species from around the globe.
+ *
+ * @alpha
+ * @service
+ * @category GeoData
+ */
+"use strict";
+
+const ApiConsumer = require("../utils/api-consumer");
+const types = require('../../input-types');
+const _ = require('lodash');
+
+types.defineType({
+    name: 'SpeciesNameType',
+    description: 'The type of species name to use in the :doc:`/services/GlobalBiodiversity/index` service.',
+    baseType: 'Enum',
+    baseParams: {
+        'common name': 'VERNACULAR',
+        'scientific name': 'SCIENTIFIC',
+    },
+});
+
+const BackBone = "d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c"
+
+const GBIF = new ApiConsumer(
+  "GlobalBiodiversity",
+  "http://api.gbif.org/v1/",
+  { cache: { ttl: 24 * 60 * 60 } },
+);
+
+/**
+ * Search the database for species of the given common or scientific name.
+ * 
+ * Because there may be many matches, only up to 20 search results are returned per call to this RPC.
+ * You can check if there are more matches by increasing the ``page`` number of results to return.
+ * When there are no more results, an empty list is returned.
+ * 
+ * @param {SpeciesNameType} nameType the type of name to search for
+ * @param {BoundedString<3>} name name of the species to search for
+ * @param {BoundedInteger<1>=} page page number of results to return (default ``1``)
+ * @returns {Array<Object>} 
+ */
+GBIF.searchSpecies = async function (nameType, name, page = 1) {
+    const limit = 20;
+    const offset = (page - 1) * limit;
+
+    // their api puts a hard cap at offset 100000 - just give empty results
+    if (offset > 100000) {
+        return [];
+    }
+
+    const res = await this._requestData({
+        path: 'species/search',
+        queryString: `datasetKey=${BackBone}&status=ACCEPTED&rank=SPECIES&qField=${nameType}&q=${encodeURIComponent(name)}&limit=${limit}&offset=${offset}`,
+    });
+
+    return res.results.map((r) => {
+        return {
+            id: r['key'],
+
+            scientificName: r['canonicalName'],
+            commonNames: _.uniq(r['vernacularNames'].filter((x) => !x.language || x.language === 'eng').map((x) => x.vernacularName.toLowerCase())).sort(),
+
+            extinct: r['extinct'],
+            threatStatuses: _.uniq(r['threatStatuses'].map((x) => x.toLowerCase().replace('_', ' '))).sort(),
+
+            habitats: _.uniq(r['habitats'].map((x) => x.toLowerCase())).sort(),
+            descriptions: r['descriptions'].filter((x) => !x.language || x.language === 'eng').map((x) => x.description),
+
+            kingdom: r['kingdom'],
+            phylum: r['phylum'],
+            class: r['class'],
+            order: r['order'],
+            family: r['family'],
+            genus: r['genus'],
+            species: r['species'],
+        };
+    });
+};
+
+/**
+ * Get the URL of any image(s) associated with a particular species returned by :func:`GlobalBiodiversity.searchSpecies`.
+ * These URLs can then be passed to :func:`GlobalBiodiversity.getImage` to retrieve the image.
+ * 
+ * Because there may be many associated images, only up to 20 URLs are returned per call to this RPC.
+ * You can check if there are more images by increasing the ``page`` number of results to return.
+ * When there are no more images, an empty list is returned.
+ * 
+ * @param {BoundedInteger<0>} speciesId the id of a species returned by :func:`GlobalBiodiversity.searchSpecies`
+ * @param {BoundedInteger<1>=} page page number of results to return (default ``1``)
+ * @returns {Array<String>} zero or more associated image URLs
+ */
+GBIF.getImageURLs = async function (speciesId, page = 1) {
+    const limit = 20;
+    const offset = (page - 1) * limit;
+
+    const res = await this._requestData({
+        path: `species/${speciesId}/media`,
+        queryString: `limit=${limit}&offset=${offset}`,
+    });
+
+    return res.results.map((r) => r.identifier);
+};
+
+/**
+ * Get an image from an image URL returned by :func:`GlobalBiodiversity.getImageURLs`.
+ * 
+ * @param {String} url URL of the image to load
+ * @returns {Image} the downloaded image
+ */
+GBIF.getImage = async function (url) {
+    return this._sendImage({ baseUrl: url });
+};
+
+module.exports = GBIF;