31 Oct
2018
31 Oct
'18
6:13 a.m.
Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> writes:
On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:
It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of
metadata instead of a bunch of pretty pictures
It's fairly well hidden, but you can indeed do that:
https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=collection%3Awalnutcreekcdrom&…
There's some documentation here: <https://archive.org/help/json.php>.
The "advanced search" form is handy for setting up queries like the above.
The Python internetarchive module comes with a command-line tool "ia"
which can drive much of archive.org's interface programmatically; I use
it for searching and batch uploads/downloads rather than the web
interface.
Cheers,
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Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>