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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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You can access the Met Museum Collection Fetcher programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "objectIDs": [436121],
10    "searchQuery": "",
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("brunofin/met-museum-collection-fetcher").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Met Museum Collection Fetcher API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Met Museum Collection Fetcher API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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