Hi there, 

There’s a python library that I’ve had good luck with (https://internetarchive.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html ). It comes with a command line tool, ia (https://internetarchive.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli.html ), that will easily do what you’d like. 

“ ia search ‘collection:bplsceep’ “ will return the list of Internet Archive identifiers for that collection. 

Best,
Katie


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On 9/18/17, 3:37 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Eric Lease Morgan" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:

    Is there an Internet Archive API that will allow me to get the contents of a collection as a stream of data and not as a stream of HTML.
    
    A cool collection of early English print materials is available at the following URL:
    
      https://archive.org/details/bplsceep
    
    Each item is associated with an Internet Archive identifier. If I were able to easily extract these identifiers, then I would be more easily able to provide services based on the collection. But I’m lazy. I don’t want to read the HTML and scrape it accordingly. Ick! I’d rather be given the list of bibliographics in a more computer-friendly way.
    
    Again, can I programmatically read the contents of a Internet Archive collection?
    
    —
    Eric Morgan