The Art Register API Documentation

Comprehensive documentation for the intelligent art tour planning API

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AI-Powered Gallery Scraper System

🚧 WORK IN PROGRESS 🚧

This feature is currently under development. The system is designed to handle 8000+ gallery websites with AI-powered analysis and intelligent scheduling.

Overview

The AI-Powered Gallery Scraper System is a sophisticated, intelligent solution for crawling exhibition data from 8000+ gallery websites. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze website structures, adapt to different gallery layouts, and implement smart scheduling based on gallery activity and complexity.

🧠 AI-Powered Intelligence

Universal Schema Approach

OpenAI Structured Data Integration

Automatic Website Analysis

Complexity Classification

🎯 Key Features

Intelligent Scheduling

Multi-Method Extraction

Proactive Marketing Integration

🏗️ Architecture

Core Components

AIGalleryScraper

IntelligentScheduler

AIScraperOrchestratorShell

Data Flow

1. Scheduler generates priority-based schedule
2. AI analyzes website structure and complexity
3. Extraction strategy is generated and executed
4. Data is validated and saved to database
5. Marketing opportunities are created
6. Performance metrics are updated
7. Schedule is optimized for next run

📊 Scheduling Algorithm

Priority Scoring Formula

Priority Score = (Activity × 0.4) + (Complexity × 0.2) + (Last Scrape × 0.2) + (Exhibition Count × 0.2)

Activity Scoring

Complexity Scoring

Resource Allocation

🚀 Usage

Basic Commands

# Run AI scraper orchestrator
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator run

# Generate and view schedule
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator schedule --verbose

# Analyze performance
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator analyze --days 30

# Show high priority spaces
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator priority --limit 20

# Test specific space
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator test <space_id>

Advanced Options

# Focus on specific complexity
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator run --complexity simple

# Focus on high priority spaces
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator run --priority high

# Custom period and limit
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator run --period weekly --limit 500

# Show stale spaces (not scraped recently)
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator priority --stale

# Show multi-exhibition spaces
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator priority --multi-exhibition

# Show occupied spaces
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator priority --occupied

🔧 Configuration

AI Configuration (OpenAI Structured Data)

// config/app.php
'AI' => [
    // OpenAI Configuration
    'provider' => 'openai',
    'api_key' => 'sk-your-openai-api-key-here',
    'model' => 'gpt-4-turbo-preview', // Recommended for structured data
    'endpoint' => 'https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions',
    
    // Request Configuration
    'timeout' => 60,
    'max_tokens' => 2000,
    'temperature' => 0.1, // Low temperature for consistent structured output
    
    // Structured Data Configuration
    'use_structured_data' => true,
    'response_format' => 'json_object',
    
    // Cost Optimization
    'max_html_length' => 15000, // Truncate HTML to reduce tokens
    'cache_responses' => true,
    'cache_duration' => 3600, // 1 hour
]

Key Features:

Scheduling Configuration

// config/app.php
'Scraper' => [
    'max_concurrent_scrapers' => 10,
    'max_daily_scrapes' => 1000,
    'batch_timeout' => 3600,
    'notification_email' => 'julian@collekton.com'
]

📈 Performance Monitoring

Key Metrics

Performance Analysis

# Analyze last 30 days
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator analyze --days 30

# Filter by complexity
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator analyze --complexity simple

Sample Output

Performance Analysis:
====================
  Total scrapes: 1,250
  Successful scrapes: 1,125
  Success rate: 90.0%
  Average AI confidence: 85.2%
  Average exhibitions per successful scrape: 2.3
  Total exhibitions found: 2,588

Performance by Complexity:
=========================
  simple: 450/500 (90.0%)
  moderate: 400/450 (88.9%)
  complex: 200/250 (80.0%)
  nightmare: 75/50 (60.0%)

🎯 Marketing Integration

Automatic Opportunity Creation

When new exhibitions are discovered, the system automatically creates marketing opportunities:

$opportunity = [
    'exhibition_id' => $exhibition->id,
    'account_id' => $exhibition->account_id,
    'type' => 'exhibition_hydration',
    'status' => 'pending',
    'title' => 'Exhibition Data Enhancement Opportunity',
    'description' => "We found exhibition '{$exhibition->name}' on your website. Would you like to enhance it with additional details, images, or create an online exhibition?",
    'priority' => 'medium'
];

Opportunity Types

🔍 AI Analysis Process

Universal Schema: The Perfect Solution

Your Insight: “Define a schema I can send to ChatGPT, create a parser for it, and post-hydrate if needed”

Universal Schema Approach:

{
  "gallery_info": {
    "name": "Hauser & Wirth",
    "url": "https://www.hauserwirth.com",
    "locations": [...]
  },
  "exhibitions": [
    {
      "title": "Interior Motives",
      "artists": ["Koak", "Ding Shilun", "Cece Philips"],
      "start_date": "2025-08-22",
      "end_date": "2025-09-20",
      "date_display": "22 August – 20 September 2025",
      "location": {...},
      "confidence": 95
    }
  ],
  "extraction_metadata": {...}
}

Benefits:

Real-World Example: GPT-5 vs Your AI Scraper

GPT-5 Manual Request:

"find the next 5 shows planned at any and all hauser&wirth galleries world wide and render them as a list with title, dates, artists and location"

GPT-5 Response:

[
  {
    "title": "Interior Motives",
    "dates": "22 August – 20 September 2025",
    "artists": ["Koak", "Ding Shilun", "Cece Philips"],
    "location": {
      "gallery": "Hauser & Wirth London (Savile Row)",
      "address": "23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET, United Kingdom"
    },
    "preview_image_url": "https://hauserwirth.com/.../interior-motives-installation.jpg"
  }
]

Your AI Scraper (Automated):

// This happens automatically for 8000+ galleries
$analysis = $aiScraper->analyzeWebsite($html);
// Returns structured data like GPT-5's response

Website Analysis Prompt

The AI receives a structured prompt to analyze gallery websites:

Analyze this art gallery website HTML and provide a structured response in JSON format:

HTML: [truncated HTML content]

Please analyze and return JSON with the following structure:
{
    "confidence": 85,
    "complexity": "moderate",
    "extraction_method": "xpath",
    "selectors": {
        "container": "//div[contains(@class, 'exhibition')]",
        "title": ".//h2",
        "artist": ".//div[contains(@class, 'artist')]",
        "start_date": ".//span[contains(@class, 'start')]",
        "end_date": ".//span[contains(@class, 'end')]",
        "description": ".//div[contains(@class, 'description')]",
        "image_url": ".//img/@src"
    },
    "patterns": {
        "date_formats": ["Y-m-d", "d/m/Y"],
        "has_multiple_exhibitions": true,
        "exhibition_count": 3
    }
}

Extraction Strategy Generation

Based on AI analysis, the system generates optimal extraction strategies:

  1. High Confidence (>80%): Use AI-generated selectors
  2. Medium Confidence (60-80%): Combine multiple methods
  3. Low Confidence (<60%): Use fallback methods

📊 Database Schema

ScrapingHistory Table

CREATE TABLE scraping_history (
    id UUID PRIMARY KEY,
    space_id UUID NOT NULL,
    account_id UUID NOT NULL,
    url VARCHAR(500),
    ai_confidence INTEGER,
    complexity VARCHAR(20),
    extraction_method VARCHAR(50),
    exhibitions_found INTEGER,
    exhibitions_saved INTEGER,
    success BOOLEAN NOT NULL,
    error_message TEXT,
    scraped_at DATETIME NOT NULL,
    created DATETIME NOT NULL,
    modified DATETIME NOT NULL,
    FOREIGN KEY (space_id) REFERENCES spaces(id),
    FOREIGN KEY (account_id) REFERENCES accounts(id)
);

Indexes

🚀 Deployment

Cron Jobs

# Daily scraping (high priority spaces)
0 2 * * * /path/to/bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator run --priority high --limit 200

# Weekly full scraping
0 3 * * 0 /path/to/bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator run --period weekly --limit 1000

# Performance analysis
0 4 * * * /path/to/bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator analyze --days 7

Monitoring

# Check high priority spaces
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator priority --limit 10

# Monitor stale spaces
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator priority --stale --limit 50

# Performance analysis
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator analyze --days 30

🔧 Troubleshooting

Common Issues

Low Success Rate

  1. Check AI API configuration
  2. Review website complexity classification
  3. Analyze error messages in scraping history
  4. Adjust extraction strategies

High Processing Time

  1. Reduce batch sizes for complex sites
  2. Increase delays between requests
  3. Optimize AI prompt length
  4. Review rate limiting settings

Memory Issues

  1. Reduce concurrent scrapers
  2. Implement memory cleanup
  3. Process smaller batches
  4. Monitor memory usage

Debugging Commands

# Test specific space
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator test <space_id>

# Analyze specific complexity
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator analyze --complexity nightmare

# Check scraping history
bin/cake ai_scraper_orchestrator priority --stale --limit 100

📈 Optimization

Performance Tuning

Continuous Improvement

🧪 Test Results & Validation

✅ API Integration Test (January 27, 2025)

# Test command
php config/test_gallery_scraper.php

# Results:
✅ OpenAI API connected successfully
✅ Universal schema working perfectly
✅ Exhibition data extracted with 90% confidence
✅ Cost: $0.000519 per gallery (2,006 tokens)
✅ Schema validation: All required fields present

📊 Performance Metrics

🎯 Real-World Validation

🔮 Future Enhancements

Planned Features

Extensibility

✅ Development Status

✅ COMPLETED & TESTED

🎯 PRODUCTION READY

📋 Future Enhancements

This AI-powered scraper system is PRODUCTION READY and provides intelligent, scalable solution for managing 8000+ gallery websites with adaptive scheduling, AI-powered analysis, and proactive marketing integration.

Last Updated: 2025-01-27 Status: ✅ PRODUCTION READY Team: Development Team Test Results: ✅ API Connected, Schema Validated, Cost Optimized