I’d love to know if anyone’s aware of a bulk metadata export feature or repository. I would like to have a copy of the metadata and .torrent files of all items.

I guess one way is to use the CLI but this relies on knowing which item you want and I don’t know if there’s a way to get a list of all items.

I believe downloading via BitTorrent and seeding back is a win-win: it bolsters the Archive’s resilience while easing server strain. I’ll be seeding the items I download.

Edit: If you want to enumerate all item names in the entire archive.org repository, take a look at https://archive.org/developers/changes.html. This will do that for you!

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    13 days ago

    Isn’t “item” and “id” basically the same thing? Because every item has a unique id. So in my example gamefaqs_txt would be the item and id.

    • BermudaHighball@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Yes, I think so. I’ll definitely use the example for downloading some of the files (.torrent, metadata file) once I have some items. But first I need to find all the items ever uploaded.