Searching on departmentID&hasImages

[olivierjoubert]

Hello,

In the context of a school project, we try to use the MET API to look for art pieces based on specific criteria

Will it is working pretty well with the examples provided in the readme such as (departmentId=6&q=cat), we keep having issues with the following request :

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/search', [
'query' => [
'departmentId'=> '6',
'hasImages' => 'true',
],
]);

Or even simpler...

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/search', [
'query' => [
'departmentId' => 6
],
]);

Getting the Fatal error: Uncaught Symfony\Component\HttpClient\Exception\TransportException: Server returned nothing (no headers, no data) for "https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/search?departmentId=6&hasImages=true". in /home/olivierjoubert/Tests/connexionAPI/vendor/symfony/http-client/Chunk/ErrorChunk.php on line 65.

Any idea why ?
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[namari12]

Hi! I was wondering if anyone could help answer a question related to identifying deaccessioned objects/works through The Met API? Thank you in advance! Thanks Nabil

[ui-jb]

Hello!

I also ran into this problem and found that the "q" property must be specified.

For example, your query works once that "q" property is provided (please note that %22 is just an encoded double quote): https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/search?departmentId=6&hasImages=true&q=%22%22

I hope this is helpful to anybody else who has run into a similar scenario with the Met's search API 🙂

-Joe

[tanya-sv]

Hello!

I have tried using this approach (with q=""), but it seems that the final result is not correct.

For example, for departmentId=11 the search endpoint https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/search?departmentId=11&hasImages=true&q=%22%22 returns 1595 objects ids, meanwhile, if you check on MET website, there should be 2325 results for this department (see https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?showOnly=withImage%7CopenAccess&pageSize=0&sortBy=Relevance&sortOrder=asc&searchField=All&department=11).

Is it a bug or am I missing something here?

Thanks in advance,
Tanya