Thank you for documenting this. You can, though, use the
"bookmark/save this search" link unattended. Just change the xmlsearch
param to Search. If you create a few queries through the form you
should see how they're constructed.

http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=Frankenstein&fl[]=identifier&sort[]=&sort[]=&sort[]=&rows=50&indent=yes&fmt=json&xmlsearch=Search


This is what we're doing in the IA service adaptor for the Umlaut.
Hopefully by doing it this way it won't break if the location of their
Solr changes.
http://umlaut.rubyforge.org/svn/U2/lib/service_adaptors/internet_archive.rb

Jason

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Chris Freeland
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> All - The Internet Archive query interface has stablized a bit, so we
> (Biodiversity Heritage Library) have updated the documentation we wrote
> outlining the processes by which we harvest content from IA:
> http://biodiversitylibrary.blogspot.com/2008/06/updated-harvesting-proce
> ss-from.html
>
> I hope this helps any & all.
>
> Chris Freeland
> Director, Bioinformatics, Missouri Botanical Garden
> Technical Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library
>