The Amazing Rijksmuseum API

There are some great APIs out, and when I started looking for more — I soon found the Rijksmuseum API. This is what I like to see!

It seems to be the norm rather than the exception that fine art and academia lag behind when tech is involved. This API is so robust! You can even search images by prominent color. So much work went into this!

People who truly *love* art, and want to help other people *love* art made this. Even without diving into the JSON data, you can utilize a user-friendly framework that exploits all that data. You can sort and favorite over 250,000 exhibit pieces from the archives.

Accessing the API gives you access to all that data, and all the ways to parse that data by year, medium, artist, and more and more and more. Getting a key is easy. and the documentation is pretty straightforward.

I’ve barely scratched the surface, but I put together a small app that takes a dip in the water. You can search a sample of images from the API, and generate a scroll of images with descriptions of the work.

You can check it out here: http://gimmeyergold.github.io/rijksfeed/