British Museum Collection API Past Cloudflare, to Parquet by Joe EstephanBritish Museum Collection API Past Cloudflare, to Parquet by Joe Estephan

British Museum Collection API Past Cloudflare, to Parquet

Joe Estephan

Joe Estephan

An integration with the British Museum's collection API for cultural and historical data, which sits behind Cloudflare's API protection.
The client gets a steady feed in Parquet and JSONL instead of blocked requests. The code handles the protection, the pagination and the retries, so the extraction runs unattended.
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Posted Oct 20, 2026

An integration with the British Museum's collection API, behind Cloudflare's protection, that delivers a steady feed in Parquet and JSONL and runs unattended.