Blog posts tagged api

Searching the SFO Museum Aviation Collection website by color

The search-by-color functionality works by taking an input color, represented as a hexidecimal string, and then “snapping” it to its nearest match on a fixed palette of colors. The RGB color space contains over 16 million individual colors so searching for exact matches will usually yield too few results to make searching by color useful. By “bucketing” all those millions of colors in to a fixed set of a couple of hundred colors, a “palette”, things start to get interesting.

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on June 16, 2025 and tagged collection, search, color, api and webassembly.

The SFO Museum Application Programming Interface (API)

Today we are announcing the availability of the SFO Museum Application Programming Interface (API). The API allows developers to access SFO Museum-related data programatically over the internet. The SFO Museum API has actually been around for a while now. It’s what powers the object counts as you add and remove filters on the advanced search page on the Aviation Collection website and is how items are added to and removed from your shoebox from both the Collection and Mills Field websites. The various SFO Museum websites are API consumers just like any other application. We are pleased to be able to (finally) open up access to the API to you and we look forward to seeing what you create with it.

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on January 14, 2025 and tagged golang, python, api, shoebox and picturebook.