There are other tools available for uploading, updating, and downloading items at Internet Archive.
ia-wrapper is a Python tool written by Jake Johnson at Internet Archive. Quoth Jake:
This package installs a CLI tool named
iafor using archive.org from the command-line. It also installs theinternetarchivepython module for programatic access to archive.org.
Using either the command line tool (ia) or the Python library (internetarchive), you can:
- create items
- upload files
- download files from items
- retrieve and maintain metadata
- perform data mining on the Internet Archive metadata database
- view the status of item processing tasks in the catalog.
The documentation for installation and use of this tool are available at its Github page.
The Internet Archive Metadata API is intended for fast, flexible, and reliable reading and writing the metadata for Internet Archive items.
The documentation for the Metadata API is available in this blog post.
Each item on Internet Archive automatically receives a torrent file which can be used–in conjunction with a BitTorrent client to download all of the files in an item.
The link to the torrent file is located in the left side bar of the item's details page.
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