Welcome to Europeana Python interface’s documentation!

With PyEuropeana you can interact with Europeana APIs in Python

Start by looking at the Getting started section for more information on how to use it, including how to install the package and a Quickstart

Indices and tables

• Index

Contents

• About
  • What is Europeana?
  • Why PyEuropeana?
• Getting started
  • Installation
    • Using pip
    • From source
  • Authentication
  • Quickstart
    • Search API
    • Record API
    • Entity API
    • IIIF API
• Package
  • apis
    • search
    • record
    • entity
      • suggest
      • retrieve
      • resolve
    • iiif
      • manifest
      • annopage
      • fulltext
      • search
  • utils
    • search2df
    • url2img
• Tutorials
  • Entity API Tutorial
    • Agents
    • Places
    • Concepts
    • Tips for using entities with the Search API
    • Conclusions
  • Extracting color palettes from Art Nouveau posters using K-means clustering
    • Introduction
      • Background information
      • What are the goals of this tutorial?
      • What do I need to know before following along?
    • Setup
      • Importing the required packages
      • Configuring Matplotlib presets
      • Setting the environment variables
    • Fetching data
      • A brief introduction to Europeana APIs
      • Basic queries with the apis.search() function
      • Working with raw responses
      • Using utility functions to transform and enrich raw responses
      • Advanced queries with the apis.search() function
    • Extracting representative color information
      • What’s in a poster?
      • How to pick representative colors?
      • Picking the appropriate algorithm
      • Running K-means on a sample poster
      • Improving K-means performance by changing the color space
      • Extracting the color palette information for the whole dataset
    • Conclusion
  • Translation Tutorial
    • Introduction
    • Importing packages
    • Definition of the translation function
    • Querying the Europeana database
    • Selection of a subset of metadata fields
    • Translations of the description field
    • Quality of translations
    • Conclusions