Kestrel is a program for downloading taxonomies from internet databases given species’ common or scientific names.
Kestrel is meant to reduce the amount of manual searching required for a project, but its results may still require some manual curation.
Go 1.11+
MySQL 8.0+
Xvfb
Chrome browser
Selenium requires Xvfb to run. To install on Linux:
sudo apt-get install xvfb
Download the git repository, change into the directory, and install (required Go packages will be installed).
git clone https://github.com/icwells/kestrel.git
cd kestrel/
./install.sh all
./install.sh download
Once you have installed the program and its dependencies, you may wish to run the test script:
./test.sh
If everything is properly configured, it should not throw any errors.