Artist
An illustrator, with a maintained count of the cards they drew.
object3 fields
Returned by
Deliberately small. card_count is denormalised and maintained by the importers, because recomputing it on read is a GROUP BY across the whole catalogue for a number that changes once a day.
399 artists are credited across the catalogue today.
Fields
| Field | Type | Null | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
slug | string | no | Stable identifier used by /v1/artists/{slug}. Not free text — "Mitsuhiro Arita" is not a slug. |
name | string | no | Name as credited on the card. |
card_count | integer | no | Cards currently attributed to this artist. |
Example
artist.json
{ "slug": "mitsuhiro-arita", "name": "Mitsuhiro Arita", "card_count": 760 }Getting the cards
There is no /v1/artists/{slug}/cards. Search instead, so you get the same filtering, sorting and paging as everywhere else:
GET /v1/cards?q=artist:"Mitsuhiro Arita"&orderBy=-index_eur