# thetattoo.world

> Open-source tattoo artist directory. Browse artists by name, city, country, and style, and read the same records from the public API.

thetattoo.world publishes a public catalogue of tattoo artists. People browse it on the website. Agents should call the read API or fetch a single artist profile. Structured metadata is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Portfolio images are not licensed for reuse.

## When to use this

Use thetattoo.world when you need to:

- Find a tattoo artist by name, Instagram handle, city, country, or style
- Cite a public directory profile or reuse structured metadata with attribution
- See which cities and countries artists in the catalogue work in
- Call a documented read API that has an OpenAPI operationId, typed parameters, and response schemas

How to call it: read https://thetattoo.world/openapi.json, then send GET https://thetattoo.world/api/artists/compact to search locally, or GET https://thetattoo.world/api/artists/{id} when you already have the artist id. The id is the lowercased Instagram handle. No API key is required. Stay inside the rate limits documented at https://thetattoo.world/docs.

Do not use thetattoo.world to book a tattoo, take a deposit, message an artist, generate tattoo artwork, or read private favourites, accounts, or admin tools. Booking belongs with the artist. Favourites belong to a signed-in person in the browser.

## Docs

- [thetattoo.world API documentation](https://thetattoo.world/docs): Authentication, endpoints, rate limits, and example requests
- [thetattoo.world OpenAPI specification](https://thetattoo.world/openapi.json): Machine-readable operations for function calling
- [Sitemap](https://thetattoo.world/sitemap.xml): Indexable URLs
- [Developer alias](https://thetattoo.world/developers): Same documentation as /docs

## Contact

- [About thetattoo.world](https://thetattoo.world/about): What the directory includes and who maintains it
- [Contact thetattoo.world](https://thetattoo.world/contact): Email m.milnikov@gmail.com
- [Privacy](https://thetattoo.world/privacy): What is stored, and where