This project aims at making it possible to download images from google art and culture (formerly Google Art Project).
First, install python 3 on your system, and install the dependencies:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt Then, run the code
python3 tile_fetch.py --zoom 4 "https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-water-carrier-la-aguadora/UwE2fGsMlWHuMg"You can of course change the zoom level and the URL. If you omit the zoom level, the script will display the list of available levels.
This project required reverse-engineering google's code to find the protection measures in place and circumvent them. Here is what was found.
The tile URLs are signed using HMAC. See the details
The tile images are encoded using AES 128 CBC. See the details