Victoria & Albert Museum Collection Scraper
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Victoria & Albert Museum Collection Scraper
Search the Victoria and Albert Museum collection and pull one clean record per object with title, maker, production date, place, materials, dimensions, gallery location, and a ready IIIF image. Filter by maker or object type. Great for design research and cultural datasets.
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🏛 Victoria & Albert Museum Collection Scraper
🚀 Pull V&A museum objects in seconds. Search 1.2M+ catalogued objects and get clean records with titles, makers, dates, materials, dimensions, gallery location, and high-quality IIIF images.
The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London holds one of the world's largest collections of art, design, and performance, spanning over 5,000 years of human creativity. This scraper turns the V&A's public collection into a structured feed you can analyse, enrich, or build on.
Point it at any search term (chair, kimono, poster, teapot, Wedgwood) and it returns one clean record per object, enriched from the V&A object detail endpoint so materials, techniques, dimensions, and gallery location come through cleanly instead of as raw codes.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Researchers and academics | Art and design history research |
| Cultural heritage and GLAM teams | Collection analysis and cataloguing |
| Educators and students | Teaching material and study sets |
| Designers and creatives | Visual reference and inspiration libraries |
| Data scientists and developers | Building cultural datasets and apps |
📋 What the Victoria & Albert Museum Collection Scraper does
This Actor queries the official Victoria & Albert Museum API v2, then enriches every result with the per-object detail record. For each museum object it returns:
- The primary IIIF image, served at 400x400 from the V&A image server
- Object title, type, accession number, and stable system number
- Maker or artist with their role (designer, manufacturer, maker)
- Production date and place of origin
- Materials, techniques, and physical dimensions
- Gallery or storage location and a short description
- A direct link to the object page on the V&A site
You control the search with a query plus optional maker and object type filters.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: artist, date, dimensions, imageUrl, location, materials, objectType, objectUrl, place, results, scrapedAt, title. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- Sign up for a free Apify account using this link.
- Open the Victoria & Albert Museum Collection Scraper.
- Enter a search query and any optional maker or object type filter.
- Click Start and watch records fill the dataset.
- Download or connect the results to your tools and workflows.
🔗 Recommended Actors
- The Met Collection Scraper
- Smithsonian Open Access Scraper
- Art Institute of Chicago Scraper
- Europeana Cultural Heritage Scraper
💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection.
⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the Victoria & Albert Museum. Only publicly available data is collected.
🆘 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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