Search for site names isn't working (brackets?)

[jessicablois]

Someone (Dani Fraser) emailed me about automating searches for old Faunmap sites. She would like to be able to get data for exact matches, but for some reason the “get_site” call isn’t allowing her to search properly. See below for a screenshot of her error.

The object 'downs' in her first line is a download object from get_download using the dataset.id 4582.

[SimonGoring]

This is also an issue for NeotomaDB/api_nodetest:

This seems to be an API issue, that I need to track down. For instance:

http://api.neotomadb.org/v1/data/sites?sitename=Jaguar%20Cave%20[Cave%20No.%202]

Does not work. We will no longer be updating the v1 API, so there's not much I can do about it. That said, the new API:

http://api-dev.neotomadb.org/v2.0/data/sites?sitename=Jaguar%20Cave%20[Cave%20No.%202]

Returns what we ought to expect. Interestingly though, partial names fail:

http://api-dev.neotomadb.org/v2.0/data/sites?sitename=Jaguar%20Cave%

So, this seems to be an API issue.