Met Museum Artworks Scraper
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Met Museum Artworks Scraper
Search the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection by keyword. Each artwork returns its title, artist, object date, medium, department, a primary image, and a link to its page on the museum site. Useful for art research, teaching, and building visual references from the collection.
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πΌ Met Museum Artworks Scraper
π Search 400,000+ artworks in seconds. Query The Metropolitan Museum of Art's open collection and pull clean records - title, artist, date, medium, department, image and object link.
Search The Met's collection of over 400,000 objects by keyword and get back matching artworks as clean, structured data - ready for research, image datasets, or enriching a gallery or education app. No account or API key required.
Each artwork is mapped to a consistent schema - title, artist, date, medium, department, high-resolution image URL and the object page link - so you can filter, join and display without any glue code.
| π― Target Audience | π‘ Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Art historians, educators, museum/gallery app builders, dataset and ML engineers | Research and cataloguing, image datasets, app enrichment, themed curation |
π What the Met Museum Artworks Scraper does
- Searches the full Met collection by keyword (artist, subject, title)
- Returns title, artist, date, medium and curatorial department
- Includes a high-resolution primary image URL
- Links to the object page on metmuseum.org
- Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
π‘ Why it matters: The Met's API returns object IDs that each need a second lookup. This actor does the search-and-fetch for you and returns one clean row per artwork.
π Data fields
Each record includes: artistDisplayName, department, medium, objectDate, objectID, objectURL, primaryImage, scrapedAt, title. All 9 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
π How to use
- Create a free account w/ $5 credit
- Open the Actor on Apify Console
- Enter a keyword in
searchQuery - Click Start
- Download the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
π Need Help?
If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.
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