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Have a sort of plant "database" where a user can select via search the type of plant when adding one.

For example, if I'm planting "blueberries" i'd like to be able to pick it from a list.

This would be a separate field from the 'name'.

The idea behind this is that it would be a first step towards adding a community-maintained database of plants and best practices that could tie in with cronjobs and give tips about soil composition and watering amounts.

Perhaps Plantbook would be the way to go for automating identification. I suppose this would be it's own issue if of interest.

https://plantbook.io/developers/

That sounds very interesting!

If we'd choose a community based plant info database then we could use the hortusfox.com homepage or, as @sunjam suggested, a third party service.

The former would require extra work and strong participation I guess. The latter one would be easier. I'll check out plantbook and other services and then compare them.

You could use http://trefle.io/ and the users only need to add their token on profile page of the application

You could use http://trefle.io/ and the users only need to add their token on profile page of the application

As of my recent knowledge according to a Twitter post, Trefle did shut down their service, didn't they?

I use trefle with plant-it without problem

Seems trefle changed sponsors, but is back in full swing according to https://trefle.io/

• API Info
• Trefle API Github repo, coded in Rust.
• Getting Started documentation

My suggestion, as someone with a wife who loves plants and me being a big self-hoster, would be to add a setting where I could add my API key, or maybe bake it into the docker file and then whichever tool I use, I can have my own account and have it pull the data. I don't mind storing it locally as well, so as long as something like trefle or plantbook don't update the information after the fact much, then I can grab those on plant creation and just leave it local.

If those APIs do update, then maybe have a setting to try and grab more information at a given interval, so I could do mine every night or once a week.

These are just my two-cents, I'd love a tool like this to replace some monthly payments on my wife's part, and it's always fun to set things up!

Seems Trefle is abandoned.

• Sign up doesn't work, so I can't get an API key (I tried it multiple times)
• Issues are not answered
• Last commit is about two years ago

If anyone knows an alternative, please let me know. But for now this issue is postponed.

https://perenual.com/plant-database-search-guide this seems to have some usable data and an API. https://garden.org/thread/view/59962/Database-APIs/ maybe the owner of this website can be persuaded to sponsor HortusFox with data. His e-mail is in the linked forum thread.

There's also plantnet: https://github.com/plantnet

Also Trefle on their website:

Trefle is coming back !
Trefle is currently being restored, and is now backed by [Mashum](https://mashum.org/)

@KalyaSc Trefle seems to not be so active anymore. Your quoted text has been on the website since after they repurchased/paid for the domain in March 2023 (https://web.archive.org/web/20230323143127/http://trefle.io/). Their repo also seems to not have any action for a few years, but I was able to get their API token.

I'm closing this now, since it seems there won't be any comparable service in the forseeable future. If that ever changes, I'll gladly re-open this issue.