search cleveland museum of art's open access api for artworks
domain: openaccess-api.clevelandart.org · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
confirm current status at clevelandart.org/open-access-api — no API key or authentication is required
call GET https://openaccess-api.clevelandart.org/api/artworks/?q={query} to search across the open-access-eligible artwork records
call GET https://openaccess-api.clevelandart.org/api/artworks/{id} for a single artwork's full record
check share_license_status ("CC0" vs "Copyrighted") and the images.web/print/full URLs before reusing an image
for bulk needs, download the full current dataset as JSON/CSV directly from the ClevelandMuseumArt/openaccess GitHub repo instead of paginating the API
Known gotchas
only a subset of records have downloadable image assets; many entries are metadata-only
share_license_status must be checked per record — copyrighted objects are included with metadata but restricted images
CMA describes the API and its docs as "a work in progress," so field availability can change over time
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