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Eric, yes, there is. I've implemented a simple tool using it, check out https://github.com/mjordan/archiveit_auditor. Still w work in progress but I hope it illustrates the API enough to get you going. Mark ----- On Sep 18, 2017, at 12:37 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[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