# DeviantArt Artwork Search, Gallery & Trending Feed (`dataspryva/deviantart-artwork-search-gallery-and-trending`) Actor

Reads DeviantArt's public feeds to find deviations by keyword, browse an artist's full gallery, or pull the current trending artwork feed by category.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dataspryva/deviantart-artwork-search-gallery-and-trending.md
- **Developed by:** [Dataspryva](https://apify.com/dataspryva) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Automation, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.49 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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

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# README

## DeviantArt Artwork Search, Gallery & Trending Feed

Collect artwork from DeviantArt through its public pages. Search by keyword, browse a tag, read an artist's gallery, follow the Daily Deviations feed, or open specific artwork URLs — with no account, API key or proxy setup.

### What you get

- **Five input paths**: keyword search, tag browse, artist gallery, Daily Deviations, and direct artwork URLs or IDs.
- **Artwork metadata**: title, artist, publication time, media type, file type, language, licence, and daily-deviation flag.
- **Engagement stats**: views, favourites, comments, downloads and private collections.
- **Rights and provenance flags**: mature, sensitive, downloadable, AI-generated and AI-use-disallowed.
- **Signed media URLs**: thumbnail and full preview links built from the page's current image tokens, plus display dimensions.
- **Optional artwork details**: tags, description, original dimensions, file size, original file type and watermark flag.
- **Optional artist profiles**: watchers, deviation count, pageviews and join date.
- **Literature support**: list modes return a text excerpt for literature submissions, with image fields omitted; detail enrichment merges the page description when present.
- **Omit-empty output**: fields the source does not expose are left out instead of filled with guesses.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Used by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `mode` | Select | `search` | All modes: `search`, `tag`, `gallery`, `daily`, `artwork`. |
| `searchQuery` | Text | `fantasy art` | `search`; keyword or search URL. |
| `tag` | Text | – | `tag`; accepts `fantasy` or a tag URL. |
| `username` | Text | – | `gallery`; accepts a username or profile URL. |
| `artworkUrls` | String list | – | `artwork`; URL, `/art/...-id` link or numeric ID. |
| `contentType` | Select | `all` | `search`; limit to `image` or `literature`. |
| `order` | Select | `recommended` | `tag`; `recommended` or `most-recent`. |
| `includeDetails` | Boolean | `false` | Browse modes only: adds tags, description and original-file metadata with one extra artwork page per record. |
| `includeArtistStats` | Boolean | `false` | Adds profile statistics; one extra page per unique artist. |
| `excludeMature` | Boolean | `false` | Skips artwork flagged mature or sensitive. |
| `maxItems` | Integer | `30` | Stops after this many unique artworks (1–500). |

Every record is de-duplicated by deviation ID across pages.

#### Examples

Search for recent fantasy artwork:

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "fantasy art",
  "contentType": "image",
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

Browse a tag with detail enrichment:

```json
{
  "mode": "tag",
  "tag": "fantasy",
  "order": "most-recent",
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 20
}
```

Read an artist gallery with profile stats:

```json
{
  "mode": "gallery",
  "username": "example-artist",
  "includeArtistStats": true,
  "maxItems": 40
}
```

Open specific artworks:

```json
{
  "mode": "artwork",
  "artworkUrls": [
    "https://www.deviantart.com/byzwa-dher/art/Temple-485251112",
    "485251112"
  ]
}
```

### Output fields

`deviationId`, `title`, `artistName`, `artistUsername`, `artistUrl`, `artistAvatarUrl`, `artistType`, `deviationUrl`, `shortUrl`, `sourceFeed`, `searchInput`, `recordType`, `scrapedAt`, `publishedAt`, `type`, `mediaType`, `fileType`, `language`, `isMature`, `isNsfg`, `isDownloadable`, `isAiGenerated`, `isAiUseDisallowed`, `isDailyDeviation`, `license`, `imageUrl`, `thumbnailUrl`, `imageWidth`, `imageHeight`, `thumbnailWidth`, `thumbnailHeight`, `views`, `favourites`, `comments`, `downloads`, `privatelyCollected`, `description`.

Detail enrichment (automatic in `artwork` mode, opt-in elsewhere) adds `tags`, `originalWidth`, `originalHeight`, `fileSizeBytes`, `originalFileType` and `hasWatermark`. Artist enrichment adds `artistWatchers`, `artistDeviationsCount`, `artistPageviews` and `artistJoinDate`.

### Use cases

- Find new artwork around a theme, fandom or tag.
- Monitor an artist's public gallery over time.
- Track which genres and creators appear in the Daily Deviations feed.
- Build mood boards or training sets from signed preview images and attribution metadata.
- Compare engagement across tags and creators.

### FAQ

**Do I need a DeviantArt account or API key?**
No. The actor reads public artwork pages and requires no login or developer credentials.

**Why are some tags or descriptions missing?**
In browse modes, detail data is merged when you enable `includeDetails`; `artwork` mode reads it from the same page. DeviantArt does not expose it on every artwork page, so missing values are omitted rather than invented.

**Do image links expire?**
Image links carry signed tokens from the page you scraped. They usually remain valid for a while, but treat them as temporary and download images promptly if you need long-term storage.

**Why did the run return fewer records than requested?**
The source limits how deep public browsing goes, and pagination can end early; gallery pages can stop at the first server-rendered batch. The run reports how many records it actually collected.

**Why is there no category field?**
DeviantArt's public artwork data no longer exposes the old art-category taxonomy. The actor does not guess one from the media type.

**Can I collect mature artwork?**
Anonymous browsing hides most mature work. `excludeMature` lets you filter out anything flagged mature or sensitive.

**Is literature supported?**
Yes. List modes include a text excerpt and omit image-specific fields. When detail enrichment is on, structured rich-text descriptions are converted to readable text; a literature excerpt is always kept.

**How fresh is the data?**
Each run reads the current public pages at request time.

**Is this affiliated with DeviantArt?**
No. This actor is independent and is not affiliated with DeviantArt, Inc.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

Choose what to collect.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Keyword or phrase to search for. Supports DeviantArt search syntax.

## `tag` (type: `string`):

Tag slug or tag URL, for example fantasy or https://www.deviantart.com/tag/fantasy.

## `username` (type: `string`):

DeviantArt username or profile URL whose gallery should be collected.

## `artworkUrls` (type: `array`):

Artwork page URLs, /art/... links, or numeric deviation IDs.

## `contentType` (type: `string`):

Limit keyword searches to images or literature.

## `order` (type: `string`):

Order used when browsing a tag.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Open each artwork page to add tags, description, original dimensions, file size and watermark flag when available.

## `includeArtistStats` (type: `boolean`):

Open each artist profile to add watchers, deviation count, pageviews and join date.

## `excludeMature` (type: `boolean`):

Skip artwork flagged as mature or sensitive.

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

Maximum number of artwork records to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "tag",
  "searchQuery": "fantasy art",
  "tag": "fantasy",
  "contentType": "all",
  "order": "recommended",
  "includeDetails": false,
  "includeArtistStats": false,
  "excludeMature": false,
  "maxItems": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `deviations` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing all collected artwork records.

# 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 = {
    "mode": "tag",
    "tag": "fantasy",
    "includeDetails": false,
    "includeArtistStats": false,
    "excludeMature": false,
    "maxItems": 3
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dataspryva/deviantart-artwork-search-gallery-and-trending").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 = {
    "mode": "tag",
    "tag": "fantasy",
    "includeDetails": False,
    "includeArtistStats": False,
    "excludeMature": False,
    "maxItems": 3,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dataspryva/deviantart-artwork-search-gallery-and-trending").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 '{
  "mode": "tag",
  "tag": "fantasy",
  "includeDetails": false,
  "includeArtistStats": false,
  "excludeMature": false,
  "maxItems": 3
}' |
apify call dataspryva/deviantart-artwork-search-gallery-and-trending --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dataspryva/deviantart-artwork-search-gallery-and-trending"
        }
    }
}
```

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/kRArTHZZpiZh36Qda/builds/PTlcRordbiDo0SrJ4/openapi.json