The Met Collection API (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The Met Collection API (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection API (collectionapi.metmuseum.org) provides keyless JSON access to object records for works in its Collection. The Open Access page says: "The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides select datasets of information on more than 470,000 artworks in its Collection for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use. To the extent possible under law, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset using the Creative Commons Zero license."

Coverage

Object records (title, artist, date, medium, department, public-domain flag and image links) for artworks in the Collection, confirmed live today via the object endpoint. Images are available only for works flagged public domain (the `isPublicDomain` field); keep to the provider's own "select datasets" wording rather than describing it as covering the museum's whole collection. History start and update frequency: Not stated.

Verdict

Keyless JSON API for object records (title, artist, date, medium, department, public-domain flag and image links) covering select datasets of The Met's Collection. Licensed CC0-1.0: "The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides select datasets of information on more than 470,000 artworks in its Collection for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use. To the extent possible under law, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset using the Creative Commons Zero license." Images are only available for works flagged public domain via the `isPublicDomain` field. Rate limit: "At this time, we do not require API users to register or obtain an API key to use the service. Please limit request rate to 80 requests per second." Signal Lab links only.