# Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Search

> Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Search is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.06/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches the Met Museum's open collection by keyword and returns matching object IDs with a total count

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-met-search
- Price: $0.06/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/metropolitan-museum-of-art-collection-search-af893bb2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_43kG28OszmYVn1c1fbUws

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability metropolitan-museum-of-art-collection-search-af893bb2 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search the Metropolitan Museum of Art's open collection for artworks related to 'ancient Egypt' and show me the matching object IDs and total count.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to search the Metropolitan Museum of Art's open collection without an API key, especially in agentic workflows building art discovery features, cultural content pipelines, or museum research tools. It's ideal when you need a quick keyword-to-object-IDs lookup that can be chained with the Met's public detail endpoints.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or missing keyword returns zero results or an error
- Very broad or common keywords may return thousands of IDs with no further detail
- Misspelled keywords may return no results
- Payment failure (non-402 compliant client) blocks access
- Rate limiting or proxy downtime returns 5xx errors

## How this service works

Search The Metropolitan Museum of Art open collection by keyword, no key. Returns matching object ids and a total count. For AI agents building art discovery and culture content.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing a total count of matching artworks and an array of object IDs from the Met Museum's open collection that match the search keyword, which can then be used to fetch full artwork details via the Met's public API.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/metropolitan-museum-of-art-collection-search-af893bb2/health.json
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