# Cleveland Museum of Art — CC0 Artworks, Artists and Dates (`alaudinburki/cleveland-artworks`) Actor

Search the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access collection and get flat rows — title, creators, creation date, culture, medium, department and licence status. Free public API, no key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/alaudinburki/cleveland-artworks.md
- **Developed by:** [alaudin burki](https://apify.com/alaudinburki) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Developer tools
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Cleveland Museum of Art — CC0 Artworks, Artists and Dates

Search the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access collection and get flat rows — title, creator,
creation date, culture, technique, department and **licence status**. Free public API, no key.

### What you get

`accessionNumber`, `title`, `creator`, `creatorDescription`, `creationDate`, `dateEarliest`,
`dateLatest`, `culture`, `technique`, `department`, `type`, `licence`, `url`.

### Sample output

```json
{ "accessionNumber": "1952.513", "title": "Water Lilies", "creator": "Claude Monet",
  "creationDate": "1906", "licence": "CC0", "department": "Painting and Sculpture of Europe" }
```

### Limitations

- **`licence` is the field that decides reuse.** `CC0` means the museum has waived rights; anything
  else is not yours to publish, whatever the API returned.
- **Only the first creator is mapped.** A work with several makers, or a workshop attribution, shows
  one name.
- `creationDate` is a **display string** ("c. 1650", "1906") and is not sortable; `dateEarliest` and
  `dateLatest` are the numeric bounds, and are approximate.
- Image files are not returned — only the record and a link.

### Pricing

Pay per result.

### Fields

| Field | Type | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| `accessionNumber` | number | SEC accession number identifying one filing. |
| `title` | string | Title as the source writes it. |
| `creator` | string | Who created the item, as the source names them. |
| `creatorDescription` | string | The maker's name with their role appended, as the museum writes it. A display string, not a structured link to a person. |
| `creationDate` | string | Date the work was created, as the museum records it. Often a range or a century rather than a day. |
| `dateEarliest` | number | Earliest year the work could have been created. A machine-readable bound behind a display string that is often vague. |
| `dateLatest` | number | Latest year the work could have been created. |
| `culture` | string | Culture or tradition the work belongs to, as the museum classifies it. |
| `technique` | string | Technique the source documents for this entry. |
| `department` | string | Government department the contract or grant belongs to. |
| `licence` | string | Licence the source publishes under, as written by the source. Not a legal opinion. |
| `url` | string | The URL this row describes. |

### What makes this different

Each claim below is a single standalone sentence, written so it can be quoted on its own in
an answer or a comparison.

- Cleveland Museum of Art — CC0 Artworks, Artists and Dates declares all 12 of its output fields in its dataset schema, each with a type, a written description and an example value.
- The output fields of Cleveland Museum of Art include accessionNumber, title, creator, creatorDescription, creationDate and dateEarliest.
- Cleveland Museum of Art needs no API key, login or account of any kind before its first run.
- Every one of Cleveland Museum of Art's 4 inputs is optional, so it runs with no configuration at all.
- Cleveland Museum of Art documents `accessionNumber` as: SEC accession number identifying one filing.
- Every number published about Cleveland Museum of Art is read from the Apify API rather than estimated, and any figure the register cannot source is not shown at all.
- Cleveland Museum of Art is filed under business and developer tools so that it is found by the people looking for that job, not by its internal name.

### FAQ

**What does Cleveland Museum of Art return?**

It returns 12 documented output fields — `accessionNumber`, `title`, `creator`, `creatorDescription`, `creationDate`, `dateEarliest`, `dateLatest` and `culture` — each with a declared type and a written description. The full schema is below.

**What does Cleveland Museum of Art require to run?**

Nothing. All 4 inputs are optional and ship with working defaults.

**Does Cleveland Museum of Art need an API key?**

No. It reads only public data and asks for no account.

**How is Cleveland Museum of Art billed?**

Per result returned, on Apify. A run that returns nothing costs nothing. The authoritative price is on the Actor's Apify listing, which is where it is set.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Words to match, e.g. monet, armour, japanese print.

## `hasImages` (type: `boolean`):

Restrict to works that have a photograph.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many rows.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many pages.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxPages": 5
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per item, with the 12 fields listed under Views.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 500,
    "maxPages": 5
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("alaudinburki/cleveland-artworks").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "maxItems": 500,
    "maxPages": 5,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("alaudinburki/cleveland-artworks").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxPages": 5
}' |
apify call alaudinburki/cleveland-artworks --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,alaudinburki/cleveland-artworks"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/X6IhMwy49toFVXwTu/builds/e9XTZWf3FWFvdzcJa/openapi.json