Art Institute of Chicago Scraper — Artworks & Images

Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection — one of the world's great art museums — and export artwork data as clean, structured rows. Get title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, department, classification, public-domain status and a high-resolution image URL for each piece. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull straight from the API.

Perfect for art research and education, digital collections, design and moodboards, dataset building for computer vision, and sourcing public-domain art with rights info attached.

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What you get

One flat, ready-to-use record per artwork:

Field	Description
id / artworkUrl	Artwork ID and museum page
title	Artwork title
artist / artistDisplay	Artist name and full attribution line
dateDisplay / dateStart / dateEnd	Creation date
medium / dimensions	Materials and size
classification / department	Type and museum department
placeOfOrigin	Where it was made
categories / terms	Subject and style tags
isPublicDomain / isOnView / gallery	Rights and display status
creditLine	Credit line
imageUrl	High-resolution image (IIIF)
query	The keyword that produced the row
collectedAt	When the row was scraped

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How to use

{
  "searchQueries": ["monet", "japanese woodblock"],
  "publicDomainOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

• Search keywords — search by artist, title, style or subject. Leave empty to browse the whole collection.
• Public-domain only — keep only freely-reusable artworks (with reusable high-res images).
• Max artworks — cap the total (0 = no limit; the scraper pages through results).

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Example output

{
  "id": 16568,
  "title": "Water Lilies",
  "artist": "Claude Monet",
  "dateDisplay": "1906",
  "medium": "Oil on canvas",
  "department": "Painting and Sculpture of Europe",
  "isPublicDomain": true,
  "imageUrl": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/…/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
  "artworkUrl": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16568",
  "collectedAt": "2026-09-20T17:40:00.000Z"
}

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Common use cases

• Art research & education — build reading lists, study sets and reference sheets.
• Digital collections — mirror or index parts of the collection with images.
• Design & moodboards — source artwork and imagery by theme or artist.
• Computer-vision datasets — assemble labelled art image sets (public-domain).
• Rights-aware reuse — filter to public-domain works with the image and credit line.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need any login, account or key? No. Just add keywords and run.

Can I get the images? Yes — each row includes a high-resolution imageUrl.

Can I get only reusable art? Yes — enable Public-domain only.

How many artworks can I get? Set Max artworks to whatever you need (0 = no limit) — the collection has over 100,000 works.

What format is the data? A flat table you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or fetch from the Apify API.

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