Randomly tweet items from an archive.org collection

tweet-archive.sh

#! /bin/bash

# use the archive.org api and 't' tool to tweet random items from an archive.org collection
# you'll need two programs preinstalled:
# t: A command-line power tool for Twitter. https://github.com/sferik/t
# jq: A lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

COLLECTION='my_collection'
ROWS=1000
ALTVURL='https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=collection:'$COLLECTION'&fl\[\]=identifier,title&rows='$ROWS'&output=json'
JSON=$(curl -s $ALTVURL)

SHOWCNT=$( echo $JSON | jq .response.numFound ) 
EPISODE=$( jot -r 1  0 $SHOWCNT )

TITLE=$( echo $JSON | jq .response.docs[$EPISODE].title | sed -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//' )
IDENT=$( echo $JSON | jq .response.docs[$EPISODE].identifier | sed -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//' )

t update "$TITLE https://archive.org/details/$IDENT"