check cooper hewitt's current api status and access collection data
domain: apidocs.cooperhewitt.org · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
note that Cooper Hewitt's public API moved from a REST/JSON service to a GraphQL API — older REST-style tutorials elsewhere on the web are outdated
explore the schema and test live queries in the browser-based GraphiQL explorer linked from apidocs.cooperhewitt.org/try-it-out
send an object(identifier: "...") GraphQL query to the API to fetch fields like title, maker, medium, department, and multimedia for a specific accession number
for bulk or offline use, skip the live API and download the full current CC0-licensed dataset (JSON per object) from the cooperhewitt/collection GitHub repo
use the Glossary (apidocs.cooperhewitt.org/glossary-in-full) to map museum jargon to the fields used in the GraphQL schema
Known gotchas
the API changed from a REST/method-call style (e.g. cooperhewitt.objects.getInfo) to GraphQL — don't follow older tutorials referencing the deprecated REST calls
the GitHub data-dump repos (collection, ch-api-v2-data-dump) are periodic snapshots, not live feeds — check each repo's last commit date before relying on freshness
most object metadata is CC0, but confirm via the record's own rights fields before reusing images specifically
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