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@davemcpherson.dev

TIL @artinstitutechi.bsky.social has a public API. www.artic.edu/open-access/...

artic.eduPublic API | The Art Institute of ChicagoThe Art Institute of Chicago provides access to all of our public data through a single, unified API (Application Programming Interface).

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@joshandrews.bsky.social

Here's a GPT to help build queries. chatgpt.com/g/g-695edcd0...

@davemcpherson.dev

Thanks! I was able to get Gemini to put together a bit based on some of my previous work. @aicbot.bsky.social github.com/DMcP89/bsky-...

github.comGitHub - DMcP89/bsky-aicbot: Bluesky bot that posts artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago's Public APIBluesky bot that posts artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago's Public API - DMcP89/bsky-aicbot

@davemcpherson.dev

@joshandrews.bsky.social did something change with the IIIF Image API? Bot is getting a 403 now while trying to download the image for the post.

@joshandrews.bsky.social

We were getting millions of image requests.

@joshandrews.bsky.social

Huge bot attack and probably over aggressive with out Cloudflare. I’ll let the team know.