API

Search for a name

Resource Uri:

http://globalnames.org/name_strings.xml

Parameters:

search_term

name pattern you want to search for, usually you want to include ‘*’ (whildcard character) at the end of the search

Notes:

• some search terms need to be url-escaped
• searches with wildcards cannot be shorter than 3 characters

per_page (default is 30)

number of items per one page (numbers larger than 1000 will be decreased to 1000)

page (default is 1)

page number you want to see.

Search will return ‘next_page’ field if more data exist for the search

Examples

valid

http://globalnames.org/name_strings.xml?search_term=ani*

http://globalnames.org/name_strings.xml?search_term=ani%27

http://globalnames.org/name_strings.xml?search_term=ama*&per_page=3&page=21

http://globalnames.org/name_strings.xml?search_term=animalia&per_page=3&page=21

invalid

http://globalnames.org/name_strings.xml?search_term=animalia&per_page=3&page=21