WikiArt Paintings & Artists Scraper

Scrape WikiArt — the online visual-art encyclopedia — for paintings and artists organised by movement, style, genre and period. Get full-size image URLs, styles (Impressionism, Cubism, High Renaissance…), genres, tags, gallery locations and descriptions, plus an artist directory with birth/death dates and Wikipedia links. No API key, no login.

Fast, clean structured JSON for art-history datasets, ML training and education — from about $0.50 per 1,000 items.

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What you get

Paintings (popular, search)

Field	Example
title	The Starry Night
artist_name	Vincent van Gogh
style	Post-Impressionism
genre	cloudscape
year	1889
tags	["twilight-and-night", "stars-and-planets", "Sky"]
media	["oil", "canvas"]
galleries	["Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US"]
description	(art-historical note, capped at 2000 chars)
image_url	full-size !Large image
width / height	2000 / 1594
url	canonical wikiart.org page
painting_id, artist_url, source, scraped_at	…

Artists (artists)

name, birth, death, wikipedia_url, image_url (portrait), url, artist_id, source, scraped_at.

Every field is nullable — missing data comes back as null / [], never a crash.

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Modes

Mode	Description
popular (default)	WikiArt's ~600 most-viewed paintings — the canonical art-history highlights, each enriched with style, genre, tags and description.
artists	The full WikiArt artist directory (~5,700 artists) with dates and Wikipedia links.
search	Paintings matching your queries (e.g. sunflower, starry night), deduplicated and enriched.

Input

{
  "mode": "popular",
  "queries": ["sunflower", "starry night"],
  "maxItems": 200
}

• mode — popular | artists | search
• queries — search terms (used only in search mode)
• maxItems — total records to return (default 200, max 3000)

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How is this different from the museum-collection scrapers?

This account also publishes scrapers for individual museum collections — objects catalogued by a single institution (accession numbers, departments, provenance):

• Museum Collections Scraper
• Met Museum Scraper
• V&A Museum Scraper
• Cleveland Art Scraper

WikiArt is different. It is not a single museum's holdings — it is an art-history encyclopedia where works are organised by artistic movement, style, genre and period (Impressionism, Baroque, Surrealism, Ukiyo-e…) and cross-linked to artists. Use the museum actors when you need one institution's catalogue; use WikiArt when you need art-historical structure — style/movement/genre labels and artist context across the whole canon.

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Use cases

• Art-history datasets — build a corpus labelled by style, movement and period.
• ML / computer-vision training — image URLs paired with style/genre/tag labels.
• Education — teaching sets grouped by artist, era or movement.
• Style & trend analysis — quantify how genres and movements relate across artists.

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Notes

• Uses WikiArt's public keyless JSON endpoints; be considerate with volume.
• Images are hosted by WikiArt; respect their terms and any copyright on individual works.
• Output goes to the Apify dataset (JSON, CSV, Excel, API).

Related actors

museum-collections-scraper · met-museum-scraper · vam-museum-scraper · cleveland-art-scraper