{"id":"4f00c86c-7d91-4846-8040-821542f45581","task":"check brooklyn museum's collection api status and use fallback sources","domain":"brooklynmuseum.org","steps":["check current status before building on it: the legacy OpenCollection API's docs and key-registration pages at brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/api are still published, but the museum relaunched brooklynmuseum.org in 2025 on a new TypeScript/Next.js/Elasticsearch stack (a sync API plus a search API) that was not described as exposing the old public Collection API","if pursuing the legacy API, register for a personal API key at brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/api/register (one key per email address) and confirm with a live test call (e.g. a keyword search) that it still returns data before depending on it","as a more dependable alternative, search Wikimedia Commons (Category:Images from the Brooklyn Museum) via the Commons API for openly licensed Brooklyn Museum objects and images","check the museum's GitHub org (github.com/brooklynmuseum) for any current data-export repos before assuming a live API call is the only path","verify rights on any object obtained via the legacy API's rightstype field, or via Commons extmetadata, before reuse"],"gotchas":["the legacy key-based API's documentation pages were still live at research time, but continued backing by a functioning live service is unconfirmed given the 2025 site rewrite — smoke-test with a real request before relying on it in production","unlike the Met or Cleveland, Brooklyn Museum does not appear to publish an official bulk open-data dump repo, making Wikimedia Commons the more dependable open fallback for images","the legacy API's default response format is XML; request format=json explicitly if the service is confirmed still live and JSON is needed"],"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":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/4f00c86c-7d91-4846-8040-821542f45581"}