Burning Man Public API

This is the public API for Burning Man app developers. Currently you can get listings of:

Camps

Art Installations

Events

In order to access this API you must request an API key here: https://api.burningman.org/api-key-request/. All apps that use this API must follow the Burning Man Terms of Service For APIs and Datasets.

If you have questions please contact innovate@burningman.org or Join the Burning Man Innovators Discussion List.

For bugs and feature requests add a ticket. For more information about the data Burning Man provides to developers visit http://innovate.burningman.org/

Authentication

Use your api key as the basic authentication username. For example: https://YOUR-API-KEY:@api.burningman.org/api/v1/art?year=2015.

AUTHORIZATIONBasic Auth

Username

YOUR-API-KEY

Password

Art

AUTHORIZATIONBasic Auth

This folder is using Basic Auth from collectionBurning Man Public API

GETAll Art

https://api.burningman.org/api/v1/art

Gets all art installations for a given year

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
year	required	Year of event

AUTHORIZATIONBasic Auth

This request is using Basic Auth from collectionBurning Man Public API

Example Request

curl

curl --location 'https://api.burningman.org/api/v1/art?year=2015'

200 OK

Example Response

json

[
	{
	    "uid": "a2Id0000000UpvtEAC",
	    "year": 2015,
	    "name": "Papillon",
	    "url": "http://explorerphoto.com/p403123195",
	    "contact_email": "jan@delanoconsulting.com",
	    "hometown": "Alameda, CA",
	    "description": "Papillon.\r\nMosaic of mirrors reflecting a transformation to True Spirit.",
	    "artist": "Trinity Group",
	    "category": "Open Playa",
	    "program": null,
	    "donation_link": null,
	    "guided_tours": 0,
	    "self_guided_tour_map": 0,
	    "location": {
	        "string": "7:15 800'",
	        "hour": 7,
	        "minute": 15,
	        "distance": 800,
	        "category": null,
	        "gps_latitude": 40.786113813522,
	        "gps_longitude": -119.20937066261
	    },
	    "location_string": "7:15 800'",
	    "images": [
	        {
	            "gallery_ref": 74464,
	            "thumbnail_url": "http://galleries.burningman.org/include/../filestore/tmp/api_resource_cache/74464_8fe92287b623757df9699089a5d52a39.jpg"
	        }
	    ]
	},
	...
]

No response headers

This request doesn't return any response headers

GETGet Art

https://api.burningman.org/api/v1/art/{{uid}}

Gets a single art installation by its uid

AUTHORIZATIONBasic Auth

This request is using Basic Auth from collectionBurning Man Public API

Example Request

curl

curl --location 'https://api.burningman.org/api/v1/art/a2Id0000000UpvtEAC'

200 OK

Example Response

json

{
  "uid": "a2Id0000000UpvtEAC",
  "year": 2015,
  "name": "Papillon",
  "url": "http://explorerphoto.com/p403123195",
  "contact_email": "jan@delanoconsulting.com",
  "hometown": "Alameda, CA",
  "description": "Papillon.\r\nMosaic of mirrors reflecting a transformation to True Spirit.",
  "artist": "Trinity Group",
  "category": "Open Playa",
  "program": null,
  "donation_link": null,
  "guided_tours": 0,
  "self_guided_tour_map": 0,
  "location": {
    "string": "7:15 800'",
    "hour": 7,
    "minute": 15,
    "distance": 800,
    "category": null,
    "gps_latitude": 40.786113813522,
    "gps_longitude": -119.20937066261
  },
  "location_string": "7:15 800'",
  "images": [
    {
      "gallery_ref": 74464,
      "thumbnail_url": "http://galleries.burningman.org/include/../filestore/tmp/api_resource_cache/74464_8fe92287b623757df9699089a5d52a39.jpg"
    }
  ]
}

No response headers

This request doesn't return any response headers