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Hi, I work at IA. We know the UI has issues, but it probably isn't going to change anytime soon. However, we are building more APIs to let communities who use a
by rajbot 13y ago
Hi, I work at IA. We know the UI has issues, but it probably isn't going to change anytime soon. However, we are building more APIs to let communities who use archive.org build their own front ends, and let IA handle the storage. Using our JSON Metadata API you can build your own site or browser plugin that fixes some UI and UX issues.
Also, we support an S3-like API to ease uploading to IA. Also, we have just deployed a new python module that you can install using pip:
pip install internetarchive
In addition to a python module, this installs a command line tool called `ia`, and you can upload from the command line easily. IA `items` are similar to S3 `buckets`, and you can create an item like so:
ia upload itemid file1.txt file2.mp4 --metadata="title=foo"
You can also use existing S3 libraries such as boto.
- Asparagirl 13y agoAll good things, but you can also just use good old curl from the command line. Here's a Gist I made of how to upload a WARC file (basically, an archive of a website) to the IA; this can be adjusted as needed for any kind of file: http://gist.github.com/Asparagirl/6206247 http://gist.github.com/Asparagirl/6206247 The IA is one of the best things on or about or containing the Internet. People should donate to them, hint hint: http://archive.org/donate/ http://archive.org/donate/