Sources
InspoSearch aggregates 500+ sources across eight categories. Each source is queried in parallel and results stream into the unified results grid.
Overview
| Category | Sources | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Museums | 212 | Major and regional museums worldwide |
| Historical | 75 | Archives, national libraries, historical societies |
| Art and Design | 58 | Design collections, illustration archives, typography |
| Photography | 22 | Photo agencies, press archives, street photography |
| Nature | 20 | Natural history, botanical illustration, wildlife |
| Maps | varies | Cartographic collections, historical atlases |
| Fashion | varies | Costume archives, fashion photography, textile design |
| Science | varies | Scientific illustration, medical archives, astronomy |
Museums (212 sources)
A representative selection:
| Source | API | Key Required |
|---|---|---|
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | REST | -- |
| Rijksmuseum | REST | yes |
| Victoria and Albert Museum | REST | -- |
| Art Institute of Chicago | REST | -- |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | REST | -- |
| Walters Art Museum | REST | -- |
| Harvard Art Museums | REST | yes |
| Minneapolis Institute of Art | REST | -- |
| Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian | REST | yes |
| National Gallery of Art (US) | REST | -- |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art | REST | -- |
| Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | REST | -- |
| Brooklyn Museum | REST | -- |
| Yale University Art Gallery | REST | -- |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | REST | -- |
| Musee du Louvre | REST | -- |
| Museo del Prado | REST | -- |
| Uffizi Gallery | REST | -- |
| National Gallery (London) | REST | -- |
| State Hermitage Museum | REST | -- |
The full list of 212 museum sources is available in the app's source filter sidebar.
Historical (75 sources)
| Source | API | Key Required |
|---|---|---|
| Library of Congress | REST | -- |
| Europeana | REST | yes |
| Digital Public Library of America | REST | yes |
| National Archives (NARA) | REST | -- |
| Smithsonian Open Access | REST | -- |
| Internet Archive | REST | -- |
| Biodiversity Heritage Library | REST | -- |
| David Rumsey Map Collection | REST | -- |
| Wellcome Collection | REST | -- |
| British Library | IIIF | -- |
| Gallica (BnF) | REST | -- |
| National Library of Australia (Trove) | REST | yes |
| National Diet Library (Japan) | REST | -- |
| Bodleian Libraries (Oxford) | IIIF | -- |
| Cambridge Digital Library | IIIF | -- |
Photography (22 sources)
| Source | API | Key Required |
|---|---|---|
| Unsplash | REST | yes |
| Flickr Commons | REST | yes |
| Pexels | REST | yes |
| Pixabay | REST | yes |
| rawpixel | REST | -- |
| Library of Congress Prints and Photographs | REST | -- |
| George Eastman Museum | REST | -- |
Nature (20 sources)
| Source | API | Key Required |
|---|---|---|
| Biodiversity Heritage Library | REST | -- |
| Natural History Museum (London) | REST | -- |
| Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | REST | -- |
| New York Botanical Garden | REST | -- |
| iNaturalist | REST | -- |
Art and Design (58 sources)
| Source | API | Key Required |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | REST | -- |
| Artvee | Scrape | -- |
| Cooper Hewitt (Design) | REST | yes |
| Noun Project | REST | yes |
| Open Clip Art | REST | -- |
| Creative Commons Search | REST | -- |
| Behance | REST | -- |
Adding New Sources
See the Adding a Source guide for the manifest schema, testing protocol, and PR checklist.