open-smk API for agents (unofficial) — JSON over curl | clify
SMK Open, the art collection of Statens Museum for Kunst (the National Gallery of Denmark). The CLI searches and filters artworks through the public SMK API and fetches artwork details, similar works, enrichment data, curated themes and IIIF image metadata.
Host: open.smk.dk. 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
search-artworks
Search the SMK collection by keyword, with optional facet filters, a date or geo range, language and offset pagination. Params: query, lang, filters, range, offset, rows
curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/open-smk/search-artworks?query=hammersh%C3%B8i&filters=%5Bartist%3AVilhelm+Hammersh%C3%B8i%5D&range=%5Bproduction_dates_end%3A%7B1900-01-01T00%3A00%3A00.000Z%3B*%7D%5D'
list-search-facets
List facet values with counts (artists, creators, work types, colours and so on) for a keyword search. Use the values as filters in search-artworks. Params: query, facets, filters, lang
curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/open-smk/list-search-facets?query=hammersh%C3%B8i&filters=%5Bhas_image%3Atrue%5D'
get-artworks
Get full metadata for one or more artworks by object number (comma-separated): title, creator, dates, dimensions, exhibitions, literature and image URLs. Params: object_number*, lang
curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/open-smk/get-artworks?object_number=KMS6658'
get-similar-artworks
Get the object numbers of artworks that are visually similar to an artwork. Params: object_number*
curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/open-smk/get-similar-artworks?object_number=KMS6658'
get-artwork-enrichment
Get enrichment records for an artwork, such as visual feature extraction (brightness, contrast, saturation, colour temperature) and similar-image data. Params: object_number*
curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/open-smk/get-artwork-enrichment'
list-themes
List curated themes (e.g. '10 Highlights', 'Animals') with their Danish and English titles and the object numbers of their artworks. Params: none
curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/open-smk/list-themes'
get-theme
Get one curated theme: titles, HTML description in Danish and English, and the object numbers of its artworks. Params: id*
curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/open-smk/get-theme'
get-iiif-manifest
Get the IIIF Presentation 3 manifest for an artwork: label, rights, attribution, metadata, and canvases with image size and image service URLs. Params: id*
curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/open-smk/get-iiif-manifest?id=KMS6658'
get-iiif-image-info
Get IIIF Image API info.json for an artwork image: full width and height, available sizes, tiles and supported formats, for building zoom or crop URLs. Params: image_id*
curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/open-smk/get-iiif-image-info'