# French Historic Monuments (Mérimée / POP) (`vigilant_jasmine/french-historic-monuments-merimee`) Actor Search France's official list of protected historic monuments (base Merimee / POP) by commune, department or keyword. Returns name, type, protection status, century, address, coordinates and a POP notice link. Free, key-free open data for tourism, heritage and GIS. - **URL**: https://apify.com/vigilant\_jasmine/french-historic-monuments-merimee.md - **Developed by:** [DEV DEV](https://apify.com/vigilant_jasmine) (community) - **Categories:** Travel, Other - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing Pay per usage This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage ## What's an Apify Actor? 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For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## French Historic Monuments (Mérimée / POP) ### What it does **French Historic Monuments** searches France's official register of protected historic monuments — the **base Mérimée**, published on the **Plateforme Ouverte du Patrimoine (POP)** by the Ministry of Culture. Give it a commune, a department or a keyword (*château*, *cathédrale*, *église*…) and it returns each **monument historique** with its Mérimée reference, name and type, protection status (*classé* / *inscrit*), century of construction, address, department, region and GPS coordinates — plus a direct link to the POP notice. No API key, no scraping. This actor is **free** — you only pay for your own Apify platform usage. ### Input | Field | Type | Description | |---|---|---| | `queries` | array of strings | One full-text search per entry: commune, department, monument name or keyword. | | `maxResults` | integer | Max monument records across all searches (default 200). | ```json { "queries": ["Versailles", "Chartres"], "maxResults": 40 } ```` ### Output One dataset item per monument. Example: ```json { "query": "Versailles", "status": "found", "reference": "PA00087673", "name": "Château de Versailles", "denomination": "château", "commune": "Versailles", "address": "Place d'Armes", "department": "Yvelines", "region": "Île-de-France", "protection": "classé MH", "century": "17e siècle", "author": "Le Vau Louis; Hardouin-Mansart Jules", "lat": 48.8049, "lon": 2.1204, "merimee_url": "https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/PA00087673" } ``` Searches with no hits return `{"status": "not_found"}`; errors return `{"status": "error"}` with a message — the actor never crashes on a bad entry. ### Use cases - Build tourism, heritage or cultural-mapping datasets and itineraries. - Enrich real-estate or territory data with nearby protected monuments. - Research architecture by century, author, protection type or region. - Feed a GIS layer of *monuments historiques* with coordinates and POP links. ### Limitations & fair use - Data reflects the official Mérimée list; some notices have no coordinates. - Full-text search follows the source's own indexing and relevance. - The actor paginates politely (short delay between pages) and caps at 10,000 hits per search term. ### More actors by this developer Part of a family of French open-data actors (IGN cadastre, museums, SIRENE companies, BAN addresses, and more). See **[all actors by vigilant\_jasmine](https://apify.com/vigilant_jasmine)**. # Actor input Schema ## `queries` (type: `array`): One full-text search per entry: a commune, department, monument name or keyword (e.g. "Versailles", "château", "cathédrale"). Matches France's protected historic monuments list. ## `maxResults` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of monument records to return across all searches. ## Actor input object example ```json { "queries": [ "Versailles", "Chartres" ], "maxResults": 200 } ``` # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "queries": [ "Versailles", "Chartres" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("vigilant_jasmine/french-historic-monuments-merimee").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "queries": [ "Versailles", "Chartres", ] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("vigilant_jasmine/french-historic-monuments-merimee").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "queries": [ "Versailles", "Chartres" ] }' | apify call vigilant_jasmine/french-historic-monuments-merimee --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=vigilant_jasmine/french-historic-monuments-merimee", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "French Historic Monuments (Mérimée / POP)", "description": "Search France's official list of protected historic monuments (base Merimee / POP) by commune, department or keyword. Returns name, type, protection status, century, address, coordinates and a POP notice link. Free, key-free open data for tourism, heritage and GIS.", "version": "0.0", "x-build-id": "zZskNUBEfjPr2RHVh" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/vigilant_jasmine~french-historic-monuments-merimee/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-vigilant_jasmine-french-historic-monuments-merimee", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/vigilant_jasmine~french-historic-monuments-merimee/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-vigilant_jasmine-french-historic-monuments-merimee", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/vigilant_jasmine~french-historic-monuments-merimee/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-vigilant_jasmine-french-historic-monuments-merimee", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "queries" ], "properties": { "queries": { "title": "Search terms", "type": "array", "description": "One full-text search per entry: a commune, department, monument name or keyword (e.g. \"Versailles\", \"château\", \"cathédrale\"). Matches France's protected historic monuments list.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxResults": { "title": "Max monuments", "minimum": 1, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of monument records to return across all searches.", "default": 200 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```