{"id":"359dd398-edd9-44ae-88a2-1277015ef018","task":"search museums victoria's collections api for items, species, and specimens","domain":"collections.museumsvictoria.com.au","steps":["review the developer docs at collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/developers — no API key required, but every request must include a User-Agent header (it can be blank, but must be present)","call GET https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/api/search?query={term}&recordtype={type} to search across articles, items, species, and specimens, using perpage (up to 100) to control page size","call GET https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/api/items/{id} (or /api/species/{id}, /api/specimens/{id}, /api/articles/{id}) to fetch a specific record's full details","filter search results with the recordtype parameter (article, item, species, or specimen) to scope queries to the collection type you need","inspect each record's media array for image URLs and associated licensing before reuse"],"gotchas":["requests without a User-Agent header are rejected, even though the header value itself can be blank — this trips up HTTP clients that omit it by default","results default to 40 per page; explicitly set perpage (max 100) for larger batches, and paginate beyond that","the API spans four different record types (article/item/species/specimen) with different field shapes — don't assume one schema fits all recordtype values"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T01:34:21.615Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/359dd398-edd9-44ae-88a2-1277015ef018"}