inaturalist-clumper 0.1

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inaturalist-clumper 0.1 is a tool for collecting and publishing iNaturalist sightings; it has been used in production and now has an official release.

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# Release: inaturalist-clumper 0.1 Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/15/inaturalist-clumper/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/15/inaturalist-clumper/) Part of the infrastructure I use for[publishing my iNaturalist sightings on my blog](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/1/inat-sightings/)\. I've been running this in production for a few weeks now, inspiring some iterations on how it works, so I decided to ship a 0\.1 release\. You can see an example of the output[in this JSON file](https://github.com/simonw/inaturalist-clumps/blob/main/clumps.json)\.

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