API Doc

API Methods

Tropicos Web Services

Overview

Tropicos Web Services allows you to call methods for gathering data from the Tropicos application. Since screen scraping in not encouraged, this is the preferred interface. Individual methods are detailed in the menu on the left.

Users are provided with an api key in the form of a long string of characters and numbers. This key must be used in all service calls to verify who they are and if they are authorized to use the service.

The service follows a RESTful style. All urls will start the following way:

http://services.tropicos.org/