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Europeana Cultural Heritage Scraper — 60M+ European Records

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Europeana Cultural Heritage Scraper — 60M+ European Records

Europeana Cultural Heritage Scraper — 60M+ European Records

Search Europeana's catalog of 60M+ digitised European cultural heritage items — paintings, photographs, manuscripts, museum objects — by keyword, country, provider, type, year and rights.

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Europeana Cultural Heritage Scraper

Search Europeana — Europe's flagship cultural heritage aggregator with 60+ million digitised items from over 3,500 museums, libraries, archives and galleries across 30+ European countries. Paintings, photographs, manuscripts, museum objects, sound recordings and 3D scans, all in one searchable corpus.

This Actor wraps the Europeana Record Search API (api.europeana.eu/record/v2/search.json) and returns clean per-item records with title, creator, year, country, rights statement, preview image URL and a link to the original item.

Why scrape Europeana?

  • Stock imagery: find public-domain / openly licensed images for editorial and design.
  • AI training: build image / text training datasets with curated rights metadata.
  • Cultural research: analyse digitisation patterns across European institutions.
  • Education: build classroom materials from museum-grade primary sources.
  • Apps: power "this day in art history" / "image of the day" content engines.

Output fields

FieldDescription
europeanaIdStable Europeana record identifier
title / creator / descriptionCore metadata
yearYear as published by the contributor
typeIMAGE / VIDEO / SOUND / TEXT / 3D
language / countryLanguages and country of contributing institution
provider / dataProviderAggregator / contributing institution
rightsRights statement URL (Creative Commons, public domain, etc.)
previewUrlThumbnail image URL
isShownAt / isShownByOriginal record page / object page
europeanaUrlDirect Europeana page link

How to use

  1. Enter a search query (free text, default * = everything).
  2. Optionally restrict type (IMAGE, VIDEO, SOUND, TEXT, 3D).
  3. Optionally restrict country and reusability (open / restricted / permission).
  4. Provide your own apiKey from https://pro.europeana.eu/ for production. The default apidemo key works for testing but is rate-limited.
  5. Run.

Pricing

Pay-per-result. One record per Europeana item.

Other actors

  • Smithsonian Open Access Scraper
  • LOC Photos Scraper
  • DOAJ Open-Access Journals Scraper

FAQ

Is there a free tier? Yes — Europeana is fully free. The apidemo key works for casual testing.

Are results truly open? Set reusability=open to only get freely reusable items (CC0, public domain, CC BY, CC BY-SA).

Can I get the full image? Use the isShownBy URL to fetch the highest-resolution copy from the contributing institution.

Powered by the Europeana API. Items themselves carry per-record rights statements; always respect those.