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Trefle Search Plants Example

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Trefle Search Plants Example is an example object payload from Trefle, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://trefle.io/api/v1/plants/search?q=tomato&token={your_token}",
    "headers": {
      "Accept": "application/json"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "data": [
        {
          "id": 678281,
          "common_name": "Tomato",
          "slug": "solanum-lycopersicum",
          "scientific_name": "Solanum lycopersicum",
          "status": "accepted",
          "rank": "species",
          "family_common_name": "Nightshade family",
          "family": "Solanaceae",
          "genus_id": 2478,
          "genus": "Solanum",
          "image_url": "https://bs.floristic.org/image/o/b38d354fd9d15a94d0b8b4a1e5e9d81694d3ebd4.jpg",
          "synonyms": ["Lycopersicon esculentum"],
          "links": {
            "self": "/api/v1/species/solanum-lycopersicum",
            "plant": "/api/v1/plants/solanum-lycopersicum",
            "genus": "/api/v1/genus/solanum"
          }
        },
        {
          "id": 678300,
          "common_name": "Cherry tomato",
          "slug": "solanum-lycopersicum-var-cerasiforme",
          "scientific_name": "Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme",
          "status": "accepted",
          "rank": "variety",
          "family_common_name": "Nightshade family",
          "family": "Solanaceae",
          "genus_id": 2478,
          "genus": "Solanum",
          "image_url": null,
          "synonyms": []
        }
      ],
      "links": {
        "self": "/api/v1/plants/search?q=tomato&page=1",
        "first": "/api/v1/plants/search?q=tomato&page=1",
        "next": "/api/v1/plants/search?q=tomato&page=2",
        "last": "/api/v1/plants/search?q=tomato&page=4"
      },
      "meta": {
        "total": 87
      }
    }
  }
}

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