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Art Institute of Chicago

Museum collection metadata, mostly CC0, no key

🎬 MediaHEALTHYchecked 12h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✓

Browse the Art Institute's collection as JSON: artworks, artists, exhibitions, and IIIF image links. Metadata ships under CC0 (the description field is CC-BY), so it is friendly for apps and research. No key is required, though a contact User-Agent is appreciated.

66HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 66 · healthy
Uptime history
98.9%90 days
96.6%30 days
584P50 · ms
4939P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 109 ms, slowest 4326 ms, most recent 619 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks?limit=1

{
  "pagination": {
    "total": 132133,
    "limit": 1,
    "current_page": 1
  },
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 252015,
      "title": "Guided Tour",
      "main_reference_number": "2019.1190",
      "date_display": "2010",
      "artist_display": "Judy Fiskin\nAmerican, born 1945",
      "place_of_origin": "United States"
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks?limit=1"
const res = await fetch("https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks?limit=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks?limit=1")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /api/v1/artworks?limit=1584 mschecked 12h ago
GET/api/v1/artworks?limit=1PROBED

Museum collection metadata, mostly CC0, no key

GET/api

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/1

Api details by ID (example: 1).

GET/api?limit=10

Api — documented GET route.

GET/api/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/api/v1/artworks?limit=5

Artworks — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Art Institute of Chicago: common questions

Is Art Institute of Chicago free to use?

Yes — Art Institute of Chicago is a free media API. Free tier: Free, no key. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does Art Institute of Chicago need an API key?

No — Art Institute of Chicago needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (60 requests/min per IP (per docs)).

Can I call Art Institute of Chicago from the browser?

Yes — Art Institute of Chicago returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Art Institute of Chicago up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Art Institute of Chicago is healthy with 98.9% uptime over 90 days and a 584 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.