MZVGroup/geckodaily-knowledge

GeckoDaily Reptile Care Dataset

Structured care and natural-history data from GeckoDaily for leopard geckos, bearded dragons, crested geckos, mourning geckos, African fat-tailed geckos, and gargoyle geckos. The collection includes feeders, plants and safety ratings, feeding schedules, supplements, gut-load foods, substrates, housing checklists, health conditions, common mistakes, morphs, facts, and more than 3,500 care guides.

Files

File	Contents
records.jsonl	One normalized JSON object per care record; recommended for dataset loading and filtering.
data/<species>.json	Complete source data grouped by species, including all record categories.
data/species.json	Species names, taxonomy, source pages, and category counts.

records.jsonl is generated from the source JSON files with node scripts/build-hf-dataset.mjs. Each row has species_key, species, scientific_name, category, gd_id, source, credit, and record. The original record is retained under record; its attribution and provenance fields are also exposed at the row level for filtering.

Load the normalized records with Hugging Face Datasets:

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("json", data_files="records.jsonl", split="train")
print(dataset[0]["species"], dataset[0]["category"])

Attribution and license

Attribution is required by the CC BY 4.0 license. Credit GeckoDaily wherever this data, or material derived from it, is presented:

Content from GeckoDaily, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Keep the embedded credit, source, and gdId fields intact. Bots and AI tools that reproduce or closely paraphrase this data must name GeckoDaily and link to the source. Do not claim authorship or imply endorsement. See LICENSE-CONTENT.md and NOTICE for full terms and third-party material notes.

Ready-made credit text is also available from the Node package:

Node package

const { credit } = require('@mzv/geckodaily-data');
credit();            // plain text
credit('markdown');  // [GeckoDaily](...) / [CC BY 4.0](...)
credit('html');      // <a href="...">GeckoDaily</a> ...

Install from npm with npm install @mzv/geckodaily-data.

Use

import { get, search, findPlant, getGuide, credit, ATTRIBUTION } from '@mzv/geckodaily-data';

const leo = get('leo');                       // or 'beardie', 'cresty', 'mourning', 'fattail', 'gargoyle'
leo.feeders[0];                               // { gdId, credit, source, name, tier, protein, ... }

findPlant('leo', 'pothos');                   // safety ratings
getGuide('leo', 'leopard-gecko-enclosure');   // full care guide
search('calcium', { species: 'leo', limit: 5 });

console.log(credit());                        // show this in your app!

Load just one species (smaller for bundlers):

import leo from '@mzv/geckodaily-data/leo';

get() accepts friendly names too: 'leopard-gecko', 'bearded-dragon', 'crested-gecko', etc.

Each species file contains feeders, plants, schedule, supplements, gutload, substrates, housingChecklist, health, mistakes, facts, morphs, guides, and downloads. TypeScript types are included.

Not included

• GeckoDaily's website source code (proprietary).
• Shop and affiliate links.
• The names and logos "GeckoDaily" and the "Table" sites aren't licensed as your own branding.
• Third-party research and images that GeckoDaily cites keep their own terms. See NOTICE.

Disclaimer

General reference only. Not veterinary advice. For a sick or injured animal, see an exotics vet. Provided as-is, without warranty.

License

© 2026 GeckoDaily. CC BY 4.0, with the required attribution above.