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having trouble downloading occurance data as it says 'sendNotification' is missing

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[ManonGros]

related to #4525

[nmtarr]

I'm having this issue or a similar one when trying to download DWCA of occurrence data via email with pygbif (occurrences.download()). My code ran successfully last week but now returns this message and the download seems to get hung up. Did something change with download requests?

error: #: extraneous key [created] is not permitted
#/send_notification: expected: null, found: String
#/send_notification: expected type: Boolean, found: String, with error status code 400check your number of active downloads.

[MattBlissett]

Hi nmtarr,

I think this is because PyGBIF is sending "sendNotification": "true" when, strictly speaking, it should send "sendNotification": true in the request to GBIF's API. We've recently tightened up this part of the processing for unrelated reasons, but this part is now too strict -- even some of our older documentation has quotes around true/false values.

We hope to have this fixed tomorrow.

[nmtarr]

@MattBlissett,

Thank you for responding. Will the fix be applied to the API or PyGBIF?

[MattBlissett]

The fix will be to the API.

[MattBlissett]

There was another problem, with PyGBIF sending created for download requests.

Part of the fix was to the API, and part of the fix is to PyGBIF v0.6.2.