Artsy Profiles API

The Profiles API from Artsy — 2 operation(s) for profiles.

Operations 2

GET /profiles List profiles #
GET /profiles/{id} Get a profile #

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OpenAPI Specification

art-profiles-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Artsy Public Profiles 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.
  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: Profiles
paths:
  /profiles:
    get:
      operationId: listProfiles
      summary: List profiles
      tags:
      - Profiles
      description: Public profiles
      parameters:
      - 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 profiles
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HALCollection'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
  /profiles/{id}:
    get:
      operationId: getProfile
      summary: Get a profile
      tags:
      - Profiles
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: The profile id.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A profile
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HALResource'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
components:
  responses:
    RateLimited:
      description: Too many requests (rate limit is 5 requests/second per application).
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Error:
      description: Error
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  schemas:
    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.
    HALResource:
      type: object
      description: A HAL resource with hypermedia _links and _embedded relations.
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        _links:
          type: object
        _embedded:
          type: object
    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.
  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.