Art & Design · head-to-head
ColourLovers vs Metropolitan Museum of Art
ColourLovers runs a free, keyless REST API behind its color-palette community site, covering colors, palettes, patterns, and user profiles. A live request against /api/palettes returned real palette data over both HTTP and HTTPS, in JSON or XML, with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header in the response. Results carry the site's Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, so reuse needs credit and stays non-commercial.
The Met's Collection API exposes all 502,000+ objects in its Open Access collection — the same data behind its own site — fully keyless and free, asking only that callers self-throttle to 80 requests per second. A live GET against the real gateway, collectionapi.metmuseum.org, returned genuine object data carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, correcting cors no -> yes while reconfirming auth None.
| ColourLovers | Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON, XML | JSON |
| CORS | no | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Metropolitan Museum of Art supports CORS, while ColourLovers doesn't — pick Metropolitan Museum of Art for direct browser calls.