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collection-sciencemuseumgroup API for agents (unofficial) — JSON over curl | clify

Science Museum Group Collection (collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk), the online catalogue of over 500,000 museum objects and archives. This CLI reads only the public homepage: featured collections, top-level collection categories, and 'on this day' anniversary highlights.

Host: collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk. Call these verified read commands with plain curl; no install, key, or account. Use the public JSON API with plain curl. No install, key, account, or browser is needed. Example: curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/sites.json'. Start with /search?q=weather, then call /abc/COMMAND. Responses are one JSON object. The hosted MCP and GitHub repo are also available.

Commands

List the featured collections shown in the homepage 'Explore' carousel (for example BBC Heritage Collection), with title, description and link Params: none

curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/collection-sciencemuseumgroup/list-featured-collections'

list-collection-categories

List the top-level collection themes on the homepage (for example Medicine), with their description and subcategory text (for example Pharmacology, Surgery, Asian medicine) Params: none

curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/collection-sciencemuseumgroup/list-collection-categories'

list-anniversaries

List the homepage 'anniversary' highlights: collection objects linked to events from N years ago today, with the anniversary text and a link to the object Params: none

curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/collection-sciencemuseumgroup/list-anniversaries'