Yale LUX Cultural Objects Scraper
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Yale LUX Cultural Objects Scraper
Search Yale LUX across Yale museums, libraries, and archives to gather cultural objects from one cross collection catalog. Each record returns the title, maker, production date, materials, classification, holding unit, and image reference. Built for researchers and curators.
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๐ Yale LUX Cultural Objects Scraper
๐ Turn the Yale LUX catalog into clean, structured records. Search across Yale's museums, libraries, and archives and pull cultural objects from a single cross collection index of more than 76,000 paintings alone.
Yale LUX unifies the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, the Peabody Museum, the Yale University Library, and more into one searchable index built on the Linked.Art standard. This Actor searches that index by keyword and optional object type, then returns one tidy record per object with its title, maker, date, materials, classification, holding unit, and image reference.
Coverage is the public Yale LUX cross collection catalog as Yale publishes it. A single keyword like painting matches tens of thousands of objects, and you can narrow by classification such as photographs, manuscripts, or sculpture to focus on one object type.
| ๐ฏ Target Audience | ๐ก Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Museum and gallery staff | Build and refresh cross collection catalogs |
| Digital humanities researchers | Assemble datasets of objects, makers, and dates |
| Art historians and curators | Track works by classification, material, or holding unit |
| Educators and students | Source images and metadata for teaching and study |
๐ What the Yale LUX Cultural Objects Scraper does
This Actor calls the public Yale LUX search API, walks the result pages, and fetches each object's Linked.Art document to return one clean record per object:
- Search any keyword across titles, makers, classifications, and descriptions.
- Filter by an optional object type classification to focus the results.
- Map the Linked.Art document into flat, stable fields you can drop into a spreadsheet or database.
You control how many records come back, and every record carries a scrapedAt timestamp.
๐ Data fields
Each record includes: accessionNumber, classification, date, dimensions, holdingUnit, id, imageUrl, maker, materials, objectType, scrapedAt, title, url. All 13 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
๐ How to use
- Create a free Apify account using this sign-up link.
- Open the Yale LUX Cultural Objects Scraper.
- Type a
querysuch aspainting,manuscript, or an artist name. - Optionally set an
objectTypeand amaxItemsvalue. - Click Start and grab your results when the run finishes.
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โ ๏ธ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Yale University or Yale LUX. Only publicly available data is collected.
๐ 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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