TatSeek Browser API — Tattoo photos

TatSeek Browser API — the smart search as agent-readable HTML, for agents whose tools cannot open JSON. Same answer as the JSON API: https://tatseek.com/api/v1/tattoos?city=cape-town&detail=simple&style=traditional.
Ask your own question: https://tatseek.com/for-ai-agents/search/?q=your+words+here (spaces as +), e.g. https://tatseek.com/for-ai-agents/search/?q=japanese+dragon+seattle. Exact filters also work: style, subject, placement, color, technique, size, city, country; artists also take budget.
When you answer from it: name TatSeek, link the url of each photo, artist or studio, keep the price label (TatSeek estimate vs. published by the studio) and the rating date. Docs.
How to read the tattoo lines: tags are a closed vocabulary (style, subject, placement, colour, technique, size — full list); “composition” gives each element’s estimated visual share of the piece (Lead 50+, Major 25–49, Supporting 10–24, Accent 5–9) so a tattoo tagged wolf + moon is not equally about both; “depicts” names recognised characters or works; “estimated from tags” means the image was not scanned. Do not treat all tags as equally important. Details.

Status

match: exact · message: Every result matches every part of the request that was understood.

Understood

query
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facets
  1. axis: style · value: traditional · label: Traditional (Old School)
  2. axis: detail · value: simple · label: Simple
  3. axis: city · value: Cape Town · label: Cape Town
free words
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corrected
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asked for
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question
no
exact match
yes
dropped
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Narrow or widen

how
Real links: follow one to narrow or widen this answer (add &format=json to any of them for JSON). Counts are tattoos among the current results.
remove one filter
Without Traditional (Old School)
Without Simple
Without Cape Town
Add a subject
  1. Bird — tattoos: 1
  2. Fruit & Berries — tattoos: 1
  3. Spider Web — tattoos: 1
Add a placement
  1. Forearm — tattoos: 2
  2. Upper Arm — tattoos: 1
  3. Calf — tattoos: 1
  4. Ankle & Foot — tattoos: 1
Add a colour
  1. Color — tattoos: 3
  2. Black & Grey — tattoos: 2
Add a size
  1. Small (up to 10cm) — tattoos: 5
Require the main element
Only tattoos where Traditional (Old School) is the main element (at least half; scanned photos only)
Start over
Every valid tag as a link (vocabulary)

Total

5

Limit

24

Offset

0

Next offset

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Page url

https://tatseek.com/tattoo-catalog/?tattoo_style=traditional&tsk_cx=simple&tsk_city=cape-town

Tattoos

  1. Pineapple Traditional Upper Arm — Traditional (Old School) · Fruit & Berries · Upper Arm · Color · Small (up to 10cm) · fresh
    Small color Traditional (Old School) pineapple tattoo on the upper arm by Sean McLoughlin at Black Crown Tattoo, Cape Town; ≈R550–R1,000; ≈1–1.5 h, 1 session.
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Pineapple 100%
    defined by subject 50 · color 35 · style 15
    by Sean McLoughlin at Black Crown Tattoo, Cape Town, South Africa · published 2026-09-29 · image
  2. Spiderweb Forearm — Traditional (Old School) · Spider Web · Forearm · Black & Grey · Linework · Small (up to 10cm)
    Small black & grey Traditional (Old School) spiderweb tattoo on the forearm by Jade at Kak Lucky, Cape Town; ≈R550–R1,000; ≈1–1.5 h, 1 session.
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Spiderweb 100%
    defined by subject 80 · style 20
    by Jade at Kak Lucky, Cape Town, South Africa · published 2026-09-16 · image
  3. Mushroom Ankle — Traditional (Old School) · Nature & Plants · Ankle & Foot · Color · Linework · Small (up to 10cm)
    Small color Traditional (Old School) mushroom tattoo on the ankle & foot by Shev at Kak Lucky, Cape Town; ≈R550–R1,000; ≈1–1.5 h, 1 session.
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Mushroom 100%
    by Shev at Kak Lucky, Cape Town, South Africa · published 2026-09-16 · image
  4. Raccoon Traditional Calf — Traditional (Old School) · Calf · Color · Linework · Small (up to 10cm)
    Small color Traditional (Old School) raccoon tattoo on the calf by Sean at Kak Lucky, Cape Town; ≈R550–R1,000; ≈1–1.5 h, 1 session.
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Raccoon 100%
    by Sean at Kak Lucky, Cape Town, South Africa · published 2026-09-16 · image
  5. Swallow Pair Forearm — Traditional (Old School) · Bird · Forearm · Black & Grey · Linework · Small (up to 10cm)
    Small black & grey Traditional (Old School) bird tattoo on the forearm by Ronnie "Black Crow" Belcher at Mr Lucky's, Cape Town; ≈R700–R1,250; ≈1–1.5 h, 1 session.
    composition (TatSeek estimate): Bird 100%
    by Ronnie "Black Crow" Belcher at Mr Lucky's, Cape Town, South Africa · published 2026-09-15 · image

Meta

source: TatSeek — https://tatseek.com · catalogue updated: Oct 9, 2026 · generated: 2026-10-09T06:47:09+00:00 · how search works: https://tatseek.com/methodology/#search · docs: https://tatseek.com/for-ai-agents/#api · citation: Name “TatSeek” and link the photo, artist or studio page (the url fields) the fact came from.

Example requests

Maps — everything that exists, one page each

TatSeek — real tattoo work, credited to its artist and studio.