CMPS 140 Artwork Classifier

This project is an artwork classifier based on this dataset from the Met.

Getting started

• Download the above file and place MetObjects.csv in this directory.
• Install numpy, pandas, jupyter, etc.
• Run jupyter notebook in this directory and open ArtworkClassifier.ipynb

Running the scraper

• Ideally run within a virtualenv
• Requires Python 3.6
• If the crawler throws an error like FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'images/32.jpg', manually create an images directory under scraper.
• Run python3 met-scraper.py

Resources

• Based heavily on this blog post and corresponding code