Met Museum Art Collection Search (Free)
Pricing
Pay per usage
Search 470k+ artworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art open access collection. Artist, date, medium, department, high-res images and tags. No API key. Clean JSON for art datasets.
You can access the Met Museum Art Collection Search (Free) 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "queries": [9 "Van Gogh",10 "sunflowers",11 ] }12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("fit_melon/met-museum-art-collection-search").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])18for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Met Museum Art Collection Search (Free) API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: