Animals — entry 012 of 20
Movebank
Movebank is the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior's open, collaborative database for GPS tracking, biologging, and other animal-movement data, with a direct-read REST endpoint for pulling study, tag, deployment, and event records as CSV (the default) or JSON. Access requires a free Movebank account: a live probe of the real www.movebank.org/movebank/service/direct-read endpoint returned 401 Unauthorized with a WWW-Authenticate: BASIC challenge on every unauthenticated call — including a bare entity_type=study listing — and 403 with invalid credentials, confirming HTTP Basic Auth is enforced rather than optional. It's free to use, sharing a modest rate limit (one concurrent request per IP) that Movebank will lift on request for research or education.
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<a href="https://greatapis.com/api/movebank/"><img src="https://greatapis.com/badge/movebank.svg" alt="Scored 70 on greatapis.com"></a>Auth quickstart
- Sign up with the provider to get an API key.
- Send it on every request as a header
Authorization: <key> - The exact header isn't documented — Authorization is a common default; confirm in the provider's docs.
Your key is stored only in this browser (localStorage) and sent directly to the API — never to greatapis.