Met Museum Art Scraper – Artworks, Artists & Images

Get clean data from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection: artwork title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, department, culture, classification, public-domain image URLs and tags. Search by keyword or fetch by object id. As JSON, CSV or Excel. Free, no key.

💵 Pricing

Pay per result — about $0.50 / 1,000 input and $0.50 / 1,000 output. No subscription, no proxy needed. You only pay for the data you scrape, and new Apify accounts include free monthly credits so you can test it for $0.

🔎 What can it extract?

• Title, artist, artist nationality, date
• Medium, dimensions, department, culture, classification
• Public-domain flag + full-size and thumbnail image URLs
• Credit line, accession number, subject tags
• Link to the object page on metmuseum.org

🚀 How do I use it?

1. Click Try for free.
2. Set the input (see example below).
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them via the API / schedule them.

⚙️ Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "sunflowers",
  "maxItems": 100
}

📦 Output example

{
  "object_id": 436524,
  "title": "Sunflowers",
  "artist": "Vincent van Gogh",
  "date": "1887",
  "department": "European Paintings",
  "is_public_domain": true,
  "image": "https://images.metmuseum.org/...jpg",
  "url": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436524"
}

🎯 Use cases

• Art & museum discovery apps
• Education and art-history teaching material
• Open image / metadata datasets
• AI training data (public-domain artwork + rich labels)

💰 How much will it cost?

You pay only the per-result price (no proxy cost): 100 → ~$0.10 · 1,000 → ~$1 · 10,000 → ~$10

🆚 Why this one

Feature	This actor	Others
Search + fetch-by-id	✅	one only
Public-domain flag + image URLs	✅	partial
Tags, culture, classification	✅	rarely
No key needed	✅	sometimes

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❓ FAQ

Key/proxy? No. Bulk? Search returns thousands of ids; raise maxItems. Only images? Search is filtered to artworks that have images.

🛟 Support

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the actor — fixes and new fields ship fast.

Legal & privacy

Data via the public Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API. Many images are released under Open Access (CC0 / public domain); check the is_public_domain flag before reuse.

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