joaquinonsoft/museum-bot

Museums Bot

Museum Bot

Bot to recover a random artwork from a Museum and publish the information in a one or several channels like Twitter, Telegram...

Museums

This project extract information for the following sources:

Metropolitan Museum of Art Met Collection API

New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art contains over 5000 years of art from around the world in its collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Met Collection APITrack this API is a Public API released in 2018 that provides select datasets of information on more than 400,000 art works for unrestricted commercial and non commercial use. The API provides access to all of the Met's Open Access data and to corresponding high resolution images.

SEE: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API

Natural History Museum API

This REST API lets users access the data portal of London's Natural History Museum to retrieve collection and research datasets for use in software or applications. The datasets, returned in JSON, hold 2.7 million specimen records from the Museum’s Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Entomology collections.

SEE: API Endpoint API Portal / Home Page

Smithsonian Institution Open Access API

The Smithsonian Institution Open Access APITrack this API provides access to metadata about objects in the vast Smithsonian museums and galleries collection. Get metadata for the objects (name, type, etc) also metrics about objects. Search by category or terms. Smithsonian Open Access enables users to share and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, 9 research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

SEE: API Endpoint and API Portal / Home Page OpenAccess

IMPORTANT: To get and API key visit: API Key Signup

Victoria & Albert Museum REST API

The Victoria & Albert Museum API is designed as a RESTful interface to our collections and what we know about them. It returns all items in the database (paginated) in XML or JSON format. The purpose of the V&A API is to maximize access to all our collections and encourage use of them.

SEE:: API Endpoint and API Portal / Home Page

Why there are not Spanish museum?

Just because there is a serious lack of Spanish Museums Open API availability. So, I decided to start with some of the Museums which provide Open API. Some of then are listed in this article: Top 10 APIs for Museums

Publishers

There are several publisher for different output channels:

• Twitter Publisher Under development!!!
• Telegram Planed