A commandline tool to extract plant trait data from open data sources.
Plants trait data from recent automated scrapes are available at APSNet or ARS-GRIN.
For more information about APSNet scraping process, including name matching, please go here.
*A samara is a winged achene, a type of fruit in which a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue develops from the ovary wall. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samara_(fruit) accessed at 2016-06-10).
sbt 0.13.8+/java jdk 8+/git/maven 3.3+
- clone this repo
- build jar by
sbt assembly
: a stand-alone jarsamara-assembly-[version].jar
will be available intarget/scala-2.11/
- run tests by
sbt test
Don't like building your own jar? Go to releases, pick a release and download the jar from there.
- list available sources by
java -jar samara-assembly-[version].jar list
- scrape a source called
apsnet
and put results intoapsnet.tsv
byjava -jar samara-assembly-[version].jar scrape apsnet > apsnet.tsv