How to retrieve artwork id?

[Ali Haider]

I want to retrieve data for an artwork using only the url. The API uses artwork id to retrieve that data. I can't figure out how to get the artwork id. If its not possible to retrieve it using just the url, what other options are there to retrieve it?

[Daniel D.]

The public URLs refer to the artwork's slugs, and /artworks/slug 301 redirects to artworks/id.  

Example, https://api.artsy.net/api/artworks/william-michael-harnett-the-old-violin will 301 redirect to https://api.artsy.net/api/artworks/516dfb9ab31e2b2270000c45.

Note that both pages work, http://artsy.net/artwork/516dfb9ab31e2b2270000c45 and https://www.artsy.net/artwork/william-michael-harnett-the-old-violin. These used to be a redirect to in reverse, if someone at Artsy is reading, it's probably a bug in force. I opened https://github.com/artsy/force/issues/5519. 

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 5:44 PM Ali Haider <alihai...@gmail.com> wrote:

I want to retrieve data for an artwork using only the url. The API uses artwork id to retrieve that data. I can't figure out how to get the artwork id. If its not possible to retrieve it using just the url, what other options are there to retrieve it?

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[Daniel D.]

I believe that artwork is not publicly available via the API and hence the 404.

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:17 PM Ali Haider <alihai...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the quick response Daniel. This did work for the url you mentioned, but it doesn't seem to work on all artworks, for example, check this link:

Artwork link:  https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jeffrey-cortland-jones-landscape-replica-starlight-dancer

API URL: https://api.artsy.net/api/artworks/jeffrey-cortland-jones-landscape-replica-starlight-dancer

This does redirect to https://api.artsy.net/api/artworks/5eb1780a0d33a7000e4a7adf but shows the following error message:

{"type":"other_error","message":"Artwork Not Found"}

[Daniel D.]

Te-adding the list. Please contact Artsy.

These are only available to partners that list artworks on artsy via partner API, 

https://developers.artsy.net/v1/terms

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 6:20 PM Ali Haider <alihai...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there any other way I could possibly get its data?