openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Artsy Public Applications Artists API
  version: 2.0.0
  description: 'The Artsy Public API (v2) is a HAL (Hypertext Application Language) hypermedia REST API that provides access to Artsy''s database of artists, artworks, genes (Art Genome Project categories), shows, partners, fairs, and auction sales. Authentication uses an application-level X-Xapp-Token obtained by exchanging a client_id and client_secret. NOTE: Artsy has announced that the public API is being retired and may be taken down without notice; the Partner API remains for approved partners.


    Derived by API Evangelist from the live HAL root at https://api.artsy.net/api and the published documentation at https://developers.artsy.net/.'
  termsOfService: https://www.artsy.net/api-terms
  contact:
    name: Artsy Developers
    url: https://developers.artsy.net/
  x-apievangelist-note: Derived from live HAL discovery + docs; not published by Artsy as OpenAPI.
servers:
- url: https://api.artsy.net/api
  description: Artsy Public API v2
security:
- XappToken: []
tags:
- name: Artists
paths:
  /artists:
    get:
      operationId: listArtists
      summary: List artists
      tags:
      - Artists
      description: Artists represented on Artsy
      parameters:
      - name: artwork_id
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Filter by artwork id.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: similar_to_artist_id
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Return artists similar to this artist id.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: similarity_type
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Type of similarity to use.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: published_artworks
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Filter artists with published artworks.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: artworks
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Filter artists that have artworks.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: term
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Full-text search term.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: total_count
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Set to 1 to include the total item count in the response (counting is not free and off by default).
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: size
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Limit the number of embedded items returned.
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: cursor
        in: query
        required: false
        description: A position within the results set for cursor-based pagination.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: offset
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Skip this number of items (mutually exclusive with cursor).
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: sample
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Redirect to a random element in the collection.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: sort
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Sort order for the results.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A paginated set of artists
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HALCollection'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
  /artists/{id}:
    get:
      operationId: getArtist
      summary: Get a artist
      tags:
      - Artists
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: The artist id.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A artist
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HALResource'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
components:
  schemas:
    HALCollection:
      type: object
      description: A paginated HAL set.
      properties:
        total_count:
          type: integer
          description: Total items (only present when total_count=1 is requested).
        _links:
          type: object
          description: self and next links (next absent on the last page).
        _embedded:
          type: object
          description: The embedded array of items.
    HALResource:
      type: object
      description: A HAL resource with hypermedia _links and _embedded relations.
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        _links:
          type: object
        _embedded:
          type: object
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          description: Error category, e.g. auth_error, param_error, other_error.
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message.
        detail:
          type: object
          description: Optional per-field validation detail.
  responses:
    Error:
      description: Error
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    RateLimited:
      description: Too many requests (rate limit is 5 requests/second per application).
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    XappToken:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Xapp-Token
      description: Application-level token obtained from POST /tokens/xapp_token by exchanging client_id and client_secret. Sent in the X-Xapp-Token request header.