This script builds a list of all the ids of all the objects in the met's online collection, using scrAPI.org.
It is how we are dumping a big list of images. If you are interested in a USB drive with the images on them, please contact us!
The data is very crudely split into folders based on the first digit of their filename. All files are the id that can be found on http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/{ID_HERE} There is a strong bias towards ids that start with 1. If there is any incorrect or missing data, please report as I have done little verification since the website is super slow. If there are fields on the website that is not in this dataset, also let me know so I can extract it
list_ids.coffee will dump every id found (that has an image) from scrapi.org and dump it to data/ids.json
grab_paths.coffee will read those ids and grab the local paths from Don's web services and pipe it to data/paths.json
download_images.coffee will copy every path to images/{id}.jpg (usually jpg)
The code is CC0, but if you do anything interesting with the data, it would be nice to give attribution to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. If you do anything interesting with the code, it would be nice to give attribution and contribute back any modifications or improvements.