Met Museum Scraper — Artworks, Artists & Images

Search The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection — one of the largest and most-visited museums in the world — and export artwork data as clean, structured rows. Get title, artist, date, medium, department, culture, classification, public-domain status and 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 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 / objectUrl	Object ID and museum page
title	Artwork title
artist / artistBio	Artist name and biography
objectName	Object type (painting, vase, armor…)
date	Creation date
medium / dimensions	Materials and size
classification / department	Type and museum department
culture / period	Cultural context
isPublicDomain / isHighlight	Rights and highlight status
primaryImage / primaryImageSmall	Image URLs
additionalImageCount	Number of extra images
tags	Subject tags
creditLine / accessionNumber / accessionYear	Provenance
query	The keyword that produced the row
collectedAt	When the row was scraped

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How to use

{
  "searchQueries": ["vermeer", "egyptian"],
  "hasImages": true,
  "publicDomainOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

• Search keywords — search by artist, title, culture or subject.
• Only items with images — restrict to artworks that have an image.
• Public-domain only — keep only freely-reusable works.
• Max artworks — cap the total (0 = no limit). Each artwork is fetched individually, so large runs take longer.

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Example output

{
  "id": 436535,
  "title": "Wheat Field with Cypresses",
  "artist": "Vincent van Gogh",
  "date": "1889",
  "department": "European Paintings",
  "culture": null,
  "isPublicDomain": true,
  "primaryImage": "https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/original/….jpg",
  "objectUrl": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436535",
  "collectedAt": "2026-09-20T18:00:00.000Z"
}

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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 and imagery by theme, culture or artist.
• Computer-vision datasets — assemble labelled art image sets (public-domain).
• Rights-aware reuse — filter to public-domain works with images and credit lines.

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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 primaryImage (and a small version).

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

Why do large runs take a while? Each artwork's full record is fetched individually — set a sensible Max artworks.

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 scraper and other content scrapers on Apify Store — all with the same clean, one-row-per-item output.