Jason A. Heppler, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
This repository contains code for a web crawler for the Connecting Threads project co-directed by Meha Priyadarshini and Deepthi Murali. Threadbare is a play on words: by revealing (making bare) the metadata for the Threads project.
Connecting Threads is a born-digital project on the use of Indian and Indian-imitation textiles by the African diaspora in the Americas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Knitting together material from three collections — Victoria and Albert Museum, London, University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections, and the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, New York — the project re-centers the locus of global textile trade from White Euro-American markets to African diaspora markets.
All code is copyrighted © 2022 Jason Heppler. Code is licensed CC0 1.0 Universal.
For checking the values for consuming the API, the following will help:
curl -X GET "https://api.collection.cooperhewitt.org/rest/?method=cooperhewitt.exhibitions.getObjects?access_token=$THREADBARE_KEY&query=India%20textiles" \
-H "Accept: application/json" | jq