Launch of TenderScrape

I'm B, a student and creator building systems to help artists, curators, and indie sellers work faster with public domain content.

Today I’m launching TenderScrape, a tiny tool I built to solve a very specific pain I kept running into while curating art for my own shop.

I work with public domain museum art, especially from The Met. But the process of building a usable archive was brutal:

• Manually downloading images

• Renaming every file

• Copy-pasting metadata into a spreadsheet

• Organizing folders for print or digital bundles

I spent more time wrangling images than actually curating collections.

⚒️ The Solution

I built TenderScrape to automate the boring part:

• Search The Met by keyword (e.g., “mythology”, “goddess”)

• Download only high-res public domain images

• Auto-rename files using the artwork title

• Output a clean CSV: title, artist, year, medium, source URL, and filename

It's made to be fast, minimal, and easy to plug into creative workflows — whether you're building a print shop, a zine, or a visual archive.

The Launch

• I released it today on Gumroad: TenderScrape v1 – $29 Launch Offer

• It’s part of a bigger idea I’m calling TenderSuite — a set of tools for people who remix culture and bring old art into new formats

• I’m hoping to hit my first few sales this weekend and collect feedback from early users

Thanks for reading — and if you’ve ever built a tool just to save your own sanity, I’d love to hear your story too.