search the met museum collection api and fetch full object details

domain: metmuseum.github.io · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. read the docs at metmuseum.github.io — no api key or authentication is required, and the base url is collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1
  2. call GET /search?q={query} optionally adding hasImages=true or departmentId to narrow results; this returns an array of matching objectIDs only
  3. call GET /departments to look up valid departmentId values before filtering a search
  4. for each objectID of interest, call GET /objects/{objectID} to fetch the full record, including primaryImage and primaryImageSmall URLs
  5. check isPublicDomain=true before treating an object's image as freely reusable under CC0

Known gotchas

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