Art Institute of Chicago Scraper

hipersoft/artic-scraper

Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection and export artwork data: title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, department, classification, public-domain status and high-resolution image URL. One clean row per artwork as JSON, CSV or Excel.

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Total users

Monthly users

Total runs

Per artwork scraped

$0.0015

Last rebuilt

Oct 26, 2026

Overview

Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection — one of the world's great art museums — and export artwork data as clean, structured rows. Get title, artist, date, medium, dimensions, department, classification, public-domain status and a high-resolution image URL for each piece. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull straight from the API.

Perfect for art research and education, digital collections, design and moodboards, dataset building for computer vision, and sourcing public-domain art with rights info attached.

What you get

One flat, ready-to-use record per artwork:

Field	Description
`id` / `artworkUrl`	Artwork ID and museum page
`title`	Artwork title
`artist` / `artistDisplay`	Artist name and full attribution line
`dateDisplay` / `dateStart` / `dateEnd`	Creation date
`medium` / `dimensions`	Materials and size
`classification` / `department`	Type and museum department
`placeOfOrigin`	Where it was made
`categories` / `terms`	Subject and style tags
`isPublicDomain` / `isOnView` / `gallery`	Rights and display status
`creditLine`	Credit line
`imageUrl`	High-resolution image (IIIF)
`query`	The keyword that produced the row
`collectedAt`	When the row was scraped

How to use

{
  "searchQueries": ["monet", "japanese woodblock"],
  "publicDomainOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

Search keywords — search by artist, title, style or subject. Leave empty to browse the whole collection.
Public-domain only — keep only freely-reusable artworks (with reusable high-res images).
Max artworks — cap the total (0 = no limit; the scraper pages through results).

Example output

{
  "id": 16568,
  "title": "Water Lilies",
  "artist": "Claude Monet",
  "dateDisplay": "1906",
  "medium": "Oil on canvas",
  "department": "Painting and Sculpture of Europe",
  "isPublicDomain": true,
  "imageUrl": "https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/…/full/843,/0/default.jpg",
  "artworkUrl": "https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16568",
  "collectedAt": "2026-09-20T17:40:00.000Z"
}

Common use cases

Art research & education — build reading lists, study sets and reference sheets.
Digital collections — mirror or index parts of the collection with images.
Design & moodboards — source artwork and imagery by theme or artist.
Computer-vision datasets — assemble labelled art image sets (public-domain).
Rights-aware reuse — filter to public-domain works with the image and credit line.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need any login, account or key? No. Just add keywords and run.

Can I get the images? Yes — each row includes a high-resolution imageUrl.

Can I get only reusable art? Yes — enable Public-domain only.

How many artworks can I get? Set Max artworks to whatever you need (0 = no limit) — the collection has over 100,000 works.

What format is the data? A flat table you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or fetch from the Apify API.

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Input

Field	Type	Description
`searchQueries` Search keywords	array	Search the collection by keyword — artist, title, style or subject, e.g. 'monet', 'japanese woodblock', 'self portrait'. Each keyword runs its own search. Leave empty to browse the whole collection.
`publicDomainOnly` Public-domain only	boolean	Only return artworks that are in the public domain (freely reusable, including the high-resolution image). Default: `false`
`maxItems` Max artworks	integer	Maximum number of artworks to collect across all keywords (0 = no limit). Default: `100`

API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hipersoft~artic-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "monet"
  ]
}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("hipersoft/artic-scraper").call(run_input={
    "searchQueries": [
        "monet"
    ]
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('hipersoft/artic-scraper').call({
  "searchQueries": [
    "monet"
  ]
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Pricing

Event	Price	Paid plans from
Artwork scraped Charged for each artwork returned.	$0.0015	$0.0008

You pay only for what the run returns. Set a maximum cost per run and it stops cleanly at that limit.

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