/ia-collection-dl

Downloads an entire Internet Archive collection

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ia-collection-dl

Downloads an entire Internet Archive collection

Based off of download-all-items-in-IA-collection.py by Robin Camille Davis

Visit http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/data-mining-the-internet-archive for the original version

Written in python with the internetarchive module (tested with v 0.6.1)

Visit https://pypi.python.org/pypi/internetarchive for more information

Before You Run

Download the internetarchive module

pip install internetarchive

Configure ia to authenticate with your account with

$ ia configure

Quickstart Example

Find a collection identifier from the collection URL

https://archive.org/details/omni-magazine

The identifier here is omni-magazine

Run ia-collection-downloader with the identifier

$ python ia-collection-dl.py omni-collection

Your items will download into the current directory