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Harvard Art Museums

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The Harvard Art Museums API is a REST-style service designed for developers who wish to explore and integrate the museums’ collections in their projects. The API provides direct access to the data that powers the museums' website and many other aspects of the museums. All requests to the API begin with: And all requests must also specify the resource you want to retrieve: And every request must be accompanied by the apikey parameter and an API key. The API uses keys to authenticate requests. API keys take the form 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000. Here is the full structure of a typical request: Send a request to obtain your key. All data is in JSON format. Here is a typical response: Requests that return large numbers of records will be spread across multiple pages. By default, a request returns 10 records per page. You can increase this number (up to 100) by adding the…

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  1. Harvard Art Museums API Documentation
  2. Access to the API
  3. Responses and data format
  4. Paging through data
  5. Errors
  6. Images
  7. Analysis
  8. Resources that are available
  9. Experimental data
  10. Learning the API
  11. Introduction to APIs
  12. Example projects

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