Hi Brewster. Below (quoted) is the URL you emailed me during the code4lib conference last february for a way to get XML search responses from the IA.
I am now getting around to implementing my functionality that will use this... and it looks like this is no longer available? I guess it's good it didn't become available only AFTER I implemented my code! But is there any alternative you know of? Is there anyone else at the IA that would be better for me to contact regarding this matter? The OpenLibrary API is not an alternative, because I want to search the entire corpus of Internet Archive held digitized texts, and probably audio books as well. Alexis tells me that so far OL includes just a small fraction of all IA texts, and that this won't be changing any time soon. The software I am working on is an availability/discovery search where, starting from a known item, which may or may not be in our catalog, my software tells the user about various versions and copies available for free on the internet. The Internet Archive is of course one major source of this material, so it would be important to include it. But I need some way to machine-search IA. Short of trying to harvest everything through OAI-PMH and build my own index---do you have machien interfaces I could use? I suppose I could 'screen scrape' the html delivered by the IA html search. Perhaps that's what I'll have to do? Thanks for any advice, Jonathan Brewster Kahle wrote:
http://www.archive.org/services/search.php?query=contributor%3Ahopkins+AND+mediatype%3Atexts&limit=1000&submit=submit -brewster
-- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
