Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Internet Archive encourages developers to add media to archive.org as well as to consume and repurpose metadata and media.
We are gathering some existing documentation on this page to help you interact with us more efficiently, but this is definitely a work in progress. If you have feedback, please email us at info@archive.org.
General
Overview of how items are structured
Downloading & Use
Downloading in bulk using wget
Embedding video
Embedding audio
Uploading
Uploading via our S3-like API
Presetting metadata with the HTML5 Uploader
Metadata
Metadata read and write APIs
Search & Discovery
Search API to return JSON, RSS, XML, CSV
RSS feeds
Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine Availability API
Books
Book reader
Using URLs to refer to book pages
Bookserver for discovery of epubs
Open Library developer docs
More
Python wrapper for working with various archive.org APIs
Media derivatives for uploaded items
thanks for pulling these posts together in a single page!
this one link can replace 7 or 8 that i’ve squirreled away and then have to retrieve when helping someone get up to speed on the magic that happens “behind the curtain” at the Archive.
The archive.org free wifi backbone seems to be broken, from about last Thursday. No response from headquarters.
That would be Richmond.
My english is not so good , but I try to study and improve it, while, should you tell me if there are some spanish books? I want congratulate you for so good page.
Hello, the films are subtitled in portuguese of Brazil? Thank You.
Where are, in the new site, the files.DJVU?
If an item has DjVu files you can find them by clicking the “SHOW ALL” link in the “DOWNLOAD OPTIONS” area
Mine was a rhetorical question!
First, all the texts had also DJVU format, now no!
This is a great resource for teaching. Thank you for assembling this media. Unfortunately after trying to download a Newsreel Clip the media does not appear in my download file. Not sure why this is occurring.
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