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DeviantArt
A long-standing online art community hosting hundreds of millions of artworks. You can search and browse freely on the site, and an OAuth-based API covers public browsing and search for registered apps. Researchers come here to trace artwork provenance, recover an artist's public gallery, or date a piece of fan art.
Why it’s useful & how it works
The largest dedicated art community on the web, valuable for tracing the history of fan art, digital illustration, and hobbyist creative work going back to the early 2000s. You can search by keyword, browse by category, or look up an artist's full public gallery. An OAuth-based API covers public search and browsing for registered apps. It is particularly useful when you want to date a piece of artwork, find earlier versions of a character design, or survey how an artistic style evolved.
What’s inside
Over 350 million artworks (called deviations) from more than two decades of community uploads, spanning illustration, photography, literature, and craft.
API access
https://www.deviantart.com/api/v1/oauth2/ (OAuth2 PKCE; client_credentials for public browse)
An API key is required (usually free); see the endpoints above for where to get one.
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Blocked HTTP 403 108 ms
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Blocked HTTP 403 712 ms
- API, direct
- Not found HTTP 404 175 ms
- API, through a proxy
- Not found HTTP 404 639 ms
Reachability measured 2026-08-22.
Access
Programmatic API access (a key may be required, see the API tag).