GET taxonomy/classification/:id

Return the taxonomic classification of a taxon node

Parameters

Required

Name	Type	Description	Default	Example Values
id	`String`	A taxon identifier. Can be a NCBI taxon id or a name	`-`	`9606` `Homo sapiens`

Optional

Name	Type	Description	Default	Example Values
callback	`String`	Name of the callback subroutine to be returned by the requested JSONP response. Required ONLY when using JSONP as the serialisation method. Please see the user guide.	`-`	`randomlygeneratedname`

Example Requests

/taxonomy/classification/9606?content-type=application/json

Example output
Perl
Python2
Python3
Ruby
Java
R
Curl
Wget

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Tiny;
my $http = HTTP::Tiny->new();
my $server = 'http://rest.ensembl.org';
my $ext = '/taxonomy/classification/9606?';
my $response = $http->get($server.$ext, {
 headers => { 'Content-type' => 'application/json' }
});
die "Failed!\n" unless $response->{success};
use JSON;
use Data::Dumper;
if(length $response->{content}) {
 my $hash = decode_json($response->{content});
 local $Data::Dumper::Terse = 1;
 local $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
 print Dumper $hash;
 print "\n";
}

import requests, sys
server = "http://rest.ensembl.org"
ext = "/taxonomy/classification/9606?"
r = requests.get(server+ext, headers={ "Content-Type" : "application/json"})
if not r.ok:
 r.raise_for_status()
 sys.exit()
decoded = r.json()
print repr(decoded)

import requests, sys
server = "http://rest.ensembl.org"
ext = "/taxonomy/classification/9606?"
r = requests.get(server+ext, headers={ "Content-Type" : "application/json"})
if not r.ok:
 r.raise_for_status()
 sys.exit()
decoded = r.json()
print(repr(decoded))

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
server='http://rest.ensembl.org'
path = '/taxonomy/classification/9606?'
url = URI.parse(server)
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(path, {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'})
response = http.request(request)
if response.code != "200"
 puts "Invalid response: #{response.code}"
 puts response.body
 exit
end
require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'yaml'
result = JSON.parse(response.body)
puts YAML::dump(result)

import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
public class EnsemblRest {
 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 String server = "http://rest.ensembl.org";
 String ext = "/taxonomy/classification/9606?";
 URL url = new URL(server + ext);
 URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
 HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection)connection;
 
 httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
 
 InputStream response = connection.getInputStream();
 int responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();
 if(responseCode != 200) {
 throw new RuntimeException("Response code was not 200. Detected response was "+responseCode);
 }
 String output;
 Reader reader = null;
 try {
 reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response, "UTF-8"));
 StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
 char[] buffer = new char[8192];
 int read;
 while ((read = reader.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) > 0) {
 builder.append(buffer, 0, read);
 }
 output = builder.toString();
 } 
 finally {
 if (reader != null) try {
 reader.close(); 
 } catch (IOException logOrIgnore) {
 logOrIgnore.printStackTrace();
 }
 }
 System.out.println(output);
 }
}

library(httr)
library(jsonlite)
library(xml2)
server <- "http://rest.ensembl.org"
ext <- "/taxonomy/classification/9606?"
r <- GET(paste(server, ext, sep = ""), content_type("application/json"))
stop_for_status(r)
# use this if you get a simple nested list back, otherwise inspect its structure
# head(data.frame(t(sapply(content(r),c))))
head(fromJSON(toJSON(content(r))))

curl 'http://rest.ensembl.org/taxonomy/classification/9606?' -H 'Content-type:application/json'

wget -q --header='Content-type:application/json' 'http://rest.ensembl.org/taxonomy/classification/9606?' -O -

/taxonomy/classification/Homo sapiens?content-type=application/json

Example output
Perl
Python2
Python3
Ruby
Java
R
Curl
Wget

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Tiny;
my $http = HTTP::Tiny->new();
my $server = 'http://rest.ensembl.org';
my $ext = '/taxonomy/classification/Homo%20sapiens?';
my $response = $http->get($server.$ext, {
 headers => { 'Content-type' => 'application/json' }
});
die "Failed!\n" unless $response->{success};
use JSON;
use Data::Dumper;
if(length $response->{content}) {
 my $hash = decode_json($response->{content});
 local $Data::Dumper::Terse = 1;
 local $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
 print Dumper $hash;
 print "\n";
}

import requests, sys
server = "http://rest.ensembl.org"
ext = "/taxonomy/classification/Homo sapiens?"
r = requests.get(server+ext, headers={ "Content-Type" : "application/json"})
if not r.ok:
 r.raise_for_status()
 sys.exit()
decoded = r.json()
print repr(decoded)

import requests, sys
server = "http://rest.ensembl.org"
ext = "/taxonomy/classification/Homo sapiens?"
r = requests.get(server+ext, headers={ "Content-Type" : "application/json"})
if not r.ok:
 r.raise_for_status()
 sys.exit()
decoded = r.json()
print(repr(decoded))

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
server='http://rest.ensembl.org'
path = '/taxonomy/classification/Homo%20sapiens?'
url = URI.parse(server)
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(path, {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'})
response = http.request(request)
if response.code != "200"
 puts "Invalid response: #{response.code}"
 puts response.body
 exit
end
require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'yaml'
result = JSON.parse(response.body)
puts YAML::dump(result)

import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
public class EnsemblRest {
 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 String server = "http://rest.ensembl.org";
 String ext = "/taxonomy/classification/Homo%20sapiens?";
 URL url = new URL(server + ext);
 URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
 HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection)connection;
 
 httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
 
 InputStream response = connection.getInputStream();
 int responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();
 if(responseCode != 200) {
 throw new RuntimeException("Response code was not 200. Detected response was "+responseCode);
 }
 String output;
 Reader reader = null;
 try {
 reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response, "UTF-8"));
 StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
 char[] buffer = new char[8192];
 int read;
 while ((read = reader.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) > 0) {
 builder.append(buffer, 0, read);
 }
 output = builder.toString();
 } 
 finally {
 if (reader != null) try {
 reader.close(); 
 } catch (IOException logOrIgnore) {
 logOrIgnore.printStackTrace();
 }
 }
 System.out.println(output);
 }
}

library(httr)
library(jsonlite)
library(xml2)
server <- "http://rest.ensembl.org"
ext <- "/taxonomy/classification/Homo sapiens?"
r <- GET(paste(server, ext, sep = ""), content_type("application/json"))
stop_for_status(r)
# use this if you get a simple nested list back, otherwise inspect its structure
# head(data.frame(t(sapply(content(r),c))))
head(fromJSON(toJSON(content(r))))

curl 'http://rest.ensembl.org/taxonomy/classification/Homo%20sapiens?' -H 'Content-type:application/json'

wget -q --header='Content-type:application/json' 'http://rest.ensembl.org/taxonomy/classification/Homo sapiens?' -O -

Resource Information

Methods GET

Response formats json
xml
yaml
jsonp