Met Museum Scraper

hipersoft/met-museum-scraper

Search The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection and export artwork data: title, artist, date, medium, department, culture, classification, public-domain status and image URLs. 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 Metropolitan Museum of Art collection — one of the largest and most-visited museums in the world — and export artwork data as clean, structured rows. Get title, artist, date, medium, department, culture, classification, public-domain status and image URLs 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, computer-vision datasets, and sourcing public-domain art with rights info attached.

What you get

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

Field	Description
`id` / `objectUrl`	Object ID and museum page
`title`	Artwork title
`artist` / `artistBio`	Artist name and biography
`objectName`	Object type (painting, vase, armor…)
`date`	Creation date
`medium` / `dimensions`	Materials and size
`classification` / `department`	Type and museum department
`culture` / `period`	Cultural context
`isPublicDomain` / `isHighlight`	Rights and highlight status
`primaryImage` / `primaryImageSmall`	Image URLs
`additionalImageCount`	Number of extra images
`tags`	Subject tags
`creditLine` / `accessionNumber` / `accessionYear`	Provenance
`query`	The keyword that produced the row
`collectedAt`	When the row was scraped

How to use

{
  "searchQueries": ["vermeer", "egyptian"],
  "hasImages": true,
  "publicDomainOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Search keywords — search by artist, title, culture or subject.
Only items with images — restrict to artworks that have an image.
Public-domain only — keep only freely-reusable works.
Max artworks — cap the total (0 = no limit). Each artwork is fetched individually, so large runs take longer.

Example output

{
  "id": 436535,
  "title": "Wheat Field with Cypresses",
  "artist": "Vincent van Gogh",
  "date": "1889",
  "department": "European Paintings",
  "culture": null,
  "isPublicDomain": true,
  "primaryImage": "https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ep/original/….jpg",
  "objectUrl": "https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436535",
  "collectedAt": "2026-09-20T18:00:00.000Z"
}

Common use cases

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

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 primaryImage (and a small version).

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

Why do large runs take a while? Each artwork's full record is fetched individually — set a sensible Max artworks.

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

Related scrapers

Building a culture toolkit? Pair this with our Art Institute of Chicago scraper and other content scrapers on Apify Store — all with the same clean, one-row-per-item output.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`searchQueries` Search keywords	array	Search The Met collection by keyword — artist, title, culture or subject, e.g. 'vermeer', 'egyptian', 'armor'. Each keyword runs its own search.
`hasImages` Only items with images	boolean	Restrict results to artworks that have an image. Default: `true`
`publicDomainOnly` Public-domain only	boolean	Only return artworks in the public domain (freely reusable images). Default: `false`
`maxItems` Max artworks	integer	Maximum number of artworks to collect across all keywords (0 = no limit). Note: each artwork is fetched individually, so large runs take longer. Default: `100`

API

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

from apify_client import ApifyClient

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

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/met-museum-scraper').call({
  "searchQueries": [
    "vermeer"
  ]
});

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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