Ignore my nonsense. I totally misremembered how this works. DAISY books can be downloaded the same way any other book is. There's not a simple follow-your-nose way to do it (ie a fully formed URL that you can use), but if you know the magic formula to construct the URL, it's straightforward.
URLS are of the form: https://archive.org/download/mobydickbloomsre00herm/mobydickbloomsre00herm_daisy.zip where the two copies of mobydickbloomsre00herm represent the ocaid from the edition record: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL11148379M.json Your download software needs to be able to handle HTTPS and probably to follow redirects, but otherwise it should be pretty easy. Sorry for the noise before. Tom On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs < brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > Why? The daisy books are heavily encrypted and all I would be doing is > downloading the zip files. > Having this functionality would really help in building apps for NLS > authorized readers to access Open Library books. All the current NLS > readers have max 500 MB of ram and loading more than a few web pages takes > a really long time. All the readers have a bookshare application that > allows one to connect to the internet, open up the Bookshare app, then > search the bookshare library for books. Then one just hits enter on the > book title and it is downloaded and unzipped into the reader's book-reading > folder. > This makes it so accessing the web is only happening 3 times rather than > 5+ times and there is no extra links and whatnot. > In > my case I have totally given up trying to download daisy books directly > onto my NLS reader as the website just takes way too long. If I had a way > to download daisy books directly then it would really really help! > Thank you, > > Brandon Keith Biggs <http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/> > On 7/22/2015 7:30 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> AFAIU, there are legal limitations to distributing the DAISY files, as >> most are copyrighted. >> > > And OpenLibrary/IA respect those limitations by only allowing those > authorized by the Library of Congress to download them. > > The problem is that the OpenLibrary API (at least as far as I know) has > no way to allow a client to authenticate on behalf of a user to be able to > use this functionality. It would need OAuth2 support or something similar > to make this work. > > Tom > > >> >> A. >> >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Brandon Keith Biggs < >> brandonkeithbi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> Is there a way for me to trigger the url request for the daisy book >>> using info I can pull from the API? I know I need to wait for it to create >>> the book, but one shouldn't need to have the website up to do that... >>> thanks, >>> >>> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/> >>> On 7/21/2015 9:26 PM, Jeff Kaplan wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Thanks for contacting us. >>> >>> I don't believe so because daisy.zip files are made on the fly and do >>> not exist as files in the items. >>> >>> Thanks for using archive.org >>> >>> Best, >>> Jeff >>> Internet Archive Team >>> >>> >>> >>> On 7/21/15 11:08 AM, Brandon Keith Biggs wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> Does the API support downloading protected daisy books? >>> If so, where can I read the documentation? >>> thank you, >>> >>> -- >>> Brandon Keith Biggs <http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/> >>> <http://www.brandonkeithbiggs.com/> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ol-tech mailing list >>> ol-tech@archive.org >>> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech >>> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-tech@archive.org/ >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >>> ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ol-tech mailing list >>> ol-tech@archive.org >>> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech >>> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-tech@archive.org/ >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >>> ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ol-tech mailing list >>> ol-tech@archive.org >>> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech >>> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-tech@archive.org/ >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >>> ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Asaf Bartov >> Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> >> >> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share >> in the sum of all knowledge. 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