Cleveland Museum of Art Scraper — Artworks & Images

Search the Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access collection and export artwork data as clean, structured rows. Get title, artist, date, technique, department, culture, license (much of it CC0 / public domain) and high-resolution image URLs 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, computer-vision datasets, and sourcing freely-reusable art with rights info attached.

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What you get

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

Field	Description
id / accessionNumber / artworkUrl	IDs and museum page
title / titleOriginal	Title (and original-language title)
creator / creators	Artist(s)
creationDate	Creation date
culture / technique	Cultural context and materials
type / department / collection	Classification
dimensions / currentLocation	Physical details
license / copyright	Rights (e.g. CC0)
creditLine / description	Provenance and summary
imageWeb / imagePrint	Web and print-resolution images
query	The keyword that produced the row
collectedAt	When the row was scraped

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How to use

{
  "searchQueries": ["monet", "japanese"],
  "hasImage": true,
  "cc0Only": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

• Search keywords — search by artist, title, culture or subject. Leave empty to browse the whole collection.
• Only items with images — restrict to artworks that have an image.
• CC0 (public domain) only — keep only freely-reusable artworks.
• Max artworks — cap the total (0 = no limit; the scraper pages through results).

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Example output

{
  "id": 135382,
  "title": "The Red Kerchief",
  "creator": "Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)",
  "creationDate": "c. 1868–73",
  "type": "Painting",
  "department": "Modern European Painting and Sculpture",
  "license": "CC0",
  "imageWeb": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/…/1335.jpg",
  "artworkUrl": "https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1971.128",
  "collectedAt": "2026-09-20T18:40:00.000Z"
}

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Common use cases

• Art research & education — build study sets, reading lists and reference sheets.
• Digital collections — index parts of the collection with images and metadata.
• Design & moodboards — source artwork by theme, culture or artist.
• Computer-vision datasets — assemble labelled art image sets (CC0).
• Rights-aware reuse — filter to CC0 works with high-res images.

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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 web and print-resolution image URLs.

Can I get only reusable art? Yes — enable CC0 (public domain) only.

How many artworks can I get? Set Max artworks to whatever you need (0 = no limit) — the collection has thousands of open-access 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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Related scrapers

Building a culture toolkit? Pair this with our Art Institute of Chicago and Met Museum scrapers — all with the same clean, one-row-per-item output.