Internet Archive python command line interface examples

README.md

Additional examples of how to use @jjake's A python interface to archive.org

ia-meta-licenseurl.sh

# assign CC license to item metadata, in this case CC Atribution

ia metadata <indentifier> --modify="licenseurl:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"

ia-meta-more.sh

# add notes and other useful fields to archive item metadata
# this will show, along with title, license, description and other meta on detail page
# it appears that notes and description will accespt links, but not javascript
# links to gallery.html assume it is one of item's files

ia metadata <identifier> --modify="notes:What can we put here? <a href='http://apperceptions.org' class='btn btn-primary'>a link?</a>"
ia metadata <identifier> --modify="description:<a class='btn btn-primary btn-lg' href='http://www.archive.org/download/apperceptions_<identifier>/gallery.html'>Click here to view gallery</a>"
ia metadata <identifier> --modify="creator:apperceptions"
# can use any part of date format Y-m-d h:m:s
ia metadata <identifier> --modify="date: 2015-10-16"
ia metadata <identifier> --modify="title:Cat Photos"

ia-meta-readonly.sh

# can't modify (at least not after initial archive item creation) - read only
ia metadata <identifier> --modify="uploader:apperceptions"
ia metadata <identifier> --modify="updater:apperceptions"
ia metadata <identifier> --modify="adder:apperceptions"

ia-meta-subjects.sh

# Set multiple subject tags for Internet Archive items using python command line interface
ia metadata <identifier> --modify="subject:<tag1>"  --modify="subject:<tag2>"

ia-upload.sh

# always include the mediatype or it will default to 'data'
#
# media types are: image, movies, audio, texts, article, collection, data, education. etree, other, web, software
#
#
ia upload <identifier> "<identifier>_<CamalCaseName_images.zip" --metadata="mediatype:texts"