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Metropolitan Museum of Art vs PHP-Noise
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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.
PHP-Noise
PHP-Noise generates a seeded, tileable static-noise PNG background image on every request, sized and colored via query-string parameters, with no signup or key. A live GET against the real host returned a genuine PNG carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, reconfirming both auth None and cors yes.
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | PHP-Noise | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | PNG |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |