scrape: Scrape Search API

API: archive.org:archive.org-api
Endpoint: /services/search/v1/scrape
Response format: application/json
Charset: utf-8
Auth: none
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 1853ms

Description

Cursor-based REST API for retrieving large result sets without the 10,000 result limit. Minimum count is 100.

Parameters (6)

count (integer, query, optional)

Number of results (minimum 100)

Constraints: {'minimum': 100}

cursor (string, query, optional)

Cursor for pagination (from previous response)

fields (string, query, optional)

Comma-delimited metadata fields to return (e.g., 'title,identifier,creator')

q (string, query, required)

Search query using Lucene syntax

sorts (string, query, optional)

Comma-delimited fields to sort on

total_only (boolean, query, optional)

If true, returns only the total count

Examples (2)

Scrape Search API openapi-spec 
curl 'https://archive.org/services/search/v1/scrape?q=collection%3Anasa&count=100'
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://archive.org/services/search/v1/scrape",
    params={
        'q': 'collection:nasa',
        'count': '100',
    },
)
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("archive.org")
result = api.fetch("services/search/v1/scrape", q="collection:nasa", count=100)

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://archive.org/services/search/v1/scrape?q=collection%3Anasa&count=100");
const data = await resp.json();
Search scrape with query and fields doc_extracted 
curl 'https://archive.org/services/search/v1/scrape?q=TRS-80&fields=identifier%2Ctitle%2Cdescription&sorts=title'
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://archive.org/services/search/v1/scrape",
    params={
        'q': 'TRS-80',
        'fields': 'identifier,title,description',
        'sorts': 'title',
    },
)
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("archive.org")
result = api.fetch("services/search/v1/scrape", q="TRS-80", fields="identifier,title,description", sorts="title")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://archive.org/services/search/v1/scrape?q=TRS-80&fields=identifier%2Ctitle%2Cdescription&sorts=title");
const data = await resp.json();

Probe History

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