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Met Museum Collection Fetcher

Fetch artwork metadata from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access collection — 500K+ objects with images, provenance, and IIIF manifests. Uses the official keyless Met Collection API.

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Bruno Finger

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Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
`objectIDs`	array[integer]	one of three*	—	List of Met Museum object IDs to fetch (e.g., `[436121, 436533]`).
`searchQuery`	string	one of three*	—	Search term to find objects (e.g., `"van gogh"`, `"impressionism"`, `"sculpture"`).
`departmentId`	integer	one of three*	—	Fetch all objects from a specific department (e.g., `11` for European Paintings).
`includeImages`	boolean	no	`true`	Include primaryImage and primaryImageSmall URLs in output.
`includeMeasurements`	boolean	no	`false`	Include detailed measurements array in output.
`includeTags`	boolean	no	`true`	Include subject tags with AAT and Wikidata URLs in output.
`limit`	integer	no	`50`	Maximum number of objects to fetch when using searchQuery or departmentId (max 200).

* Exactly one of objectIDs, searchQuery, or departmentId must be provided.

Department IDs

ID	Department
1	American Decorative Arts
3	Ancient West Asian Art
4	Arms and Armor
5	Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
6	Asian Art
7	The Cloisters
8	The Costume Institute
9	Drawings and Prints
10	Egyptian Art
11	European Paintings
12	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
13	Greek and Roman Art
14	Islamic Art
15	The Robert Lehman Collection
16	The Libraries
17	Medieval Art
18	Musical Instruments
19	Photographs
21	Modern Art

Output

Each dataset item contains comprehensive artwork metadata:

Identification: objectID, accessionNumber, accessionYear, isHighlight, isPublicDomain
Title & Dating: title, objectDate, objectBeginDate, objectEndDate
Artist: artistDisplayName, artistDisplayBio, artistNationality, artistBeginDate, artistEndDate, artistWikidata_URL, artistULAN_URL
Classification: department, classification, culture, period, dynasty, reign
Physical: medium, dimensions, measurements (optional), creditLine
Images: primaryImage, primaryImageSmall, additionalImages (when includeImages=true)
Subjects: tags with AAT/Wikidata URLs, constituents (when includeTags=true)
Location & Provenance: geographyType, city, state, country, galleryNumber, repository
Rights & Links: rightsAndReproduction, objectURL, linkResource, isTimelineWork

Usage

By object IDs

{
  "objectIDs": [436121, 436533, 436535],
  "includeImages": true,
  "includeMeasurements": true,
  "includeTags": true
}

By search query

{
  "searchQuery": "van gogh",
  "limit": 20,
  "includeImages": true
}

By department

{
  "departmentId": 11,
  "limit": 50,
  "includeImages": true,
  "includeTags": false
}

Pricing

PAY_PER_EVENT — $0.002 per actor start (automatic event, one event per GB of memory, minimum one per run).

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