If you’re downloading to put the content on an ereader or kindle, then you could use “ *.epub” or “. You almost certainly don’t want that that. If you don’t do this then you will end up downloading every format that the Archive holds for every item. The “ glob” parameter asks the tool to only download PDFs (“files that have a. Ia download -search 'collection:inputmagazine' -glob='*.pdf' Just change the identifier from “ inputmagazine” to the one you want. Note the Identifier Downloading the collectionĪssuming you have the ia tool installed, the following command-line will let you download the contents of a named collection. Metadata for the INPUT magazine collection. You can also click on the “About” section of the collection and look at its metadata. The identifier is the last part of the URL (“ inputmagazine“). the INPUT magazine collection, has the following URL: The easiest way to do that is to take the identifier from the URL. To download every issue of a magazine you just need to first identify the name of its collection. The Magazine Rack collection is a great entry point into a whole range of magazine collections, so its a good starting point to explore if you want to see what the Archive currently holds. There are also collections of collections. The issues of a magazine will be organised into a single collection.

The Archive organises items into “collections”.

The Getting Started guide has plenty of examples and installation instructions for Unix systems. The Archive provide an open API to their collections and a command-line tool that uses that API to let you access metadata, and upload and download content. So here’s a quick tutorial on automatically downloading items in bulk and then doing something with them.

And reading locally saves them some bandwidth.ĭownloading individual items is simple, but it can be tedious to grab multiple items. But sometimes I want a local copy I can put on my tablet or other device. They’ve got a great online reader that works just fine in the browser. I like reading old magazines and books over at the Internet Archive.

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