#This is just the simplest python script to retrieve data from Europeana. import requests import json #https://www.europeana.eu/api/v2/search.json?wskey=vua4C2HUg&query=bitcoin payload = {'wskey': 'yourWSKeyHere', 'query':'bitcoin'} r = requests.get('https://www.europeana.eu/api/v2/search.json', params=payload) r.json() rjson = r.json() #print json.dumps(rjson, indent=4, sort_keys=True) with open('data.json', 'w') as outfile: json.dump(rjson, outfile, ensure_ascii=True)