Culturegrid Large Image Scraper

Culturegrid is a huge index of cultural assets in the UK (books, photographs, videos, locations...), and has a search API. At the moment it doesn't return the large images for the URLs it indexes. This adds that feature.

Let's say you want the big image that is on this page on VADS.

Send a GET request of this format to this little web service:

You will get the best image on the page (hopefully)

You will receive something like the following as JSONP: