The API

AMerican Art API

"The American Art API exposes art & artists from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection. The API is follows {JSON:API} specs."

The Smithsonian Museum of American is home to over 8,000 artists. Their API permits the intake of large quantities of data that are returned as JSON Files and can therefore be parsed through as dictionaries.

.GET Data

API KEY | Paging |Sorting

API Key: given by SAAM, grants access to data, will time out if too many requests are called.

Unique Formatting: The API Documentation specifies a unqiue heading format for the API KEY.
headers = {'X-Api-Key' :'hgvdqGXVwgpBar4dWm2O5r7WrP3cY0RSxUJkdL0n', 'Accept': 'application/vnd.api+json'}

Paging: page[offset] and page[limit] determined which records were returned. There are 8220 records, with a offset to limit ration of 20 to 1.

Sorting: I sorted by the field -alphabetical_name

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