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  • From: "Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT yergler.net>
  • To: tolsen718 AT gmail.com
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] API to Internet Archive?
  • Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:15:45 -0500

Hi Tim,

I saw your earlier email (not sure if you or the Archive forwarded it to me), but completely spaced out replying. Mea culpa.
ccPublisher originally used the Advanced Contribution interface from IA. The interface is documented at http://www.archive.org/help/contrib-advanced.php. It involves uploading the files and metadata to IA and then polling a URI to start the import process. The latest release of ccPublisher (and last few releases of Ourmedia Publisher) all use the new Direct Contribution interface, which reduces the delay between when an item is uploaded and when it is available on the site. The Direct Contribution interface is documented at http://www.archive.org/help/contrib-direct.php.

ccPublisher abstracts it's Archive.org functionality into the PyArchive module, in CVS at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cctools/pyarchive/pyarchive/. In particular submission.py contains our wrappers for the contribution interfaces. If I recall correctly, CVS HEAD is still the old-style interface, and the ccp8_1_0_x branch has the new DC interface.

I'd be happy to help you with any naggling details or questions you have.
Nathan R. Yergler
Software Engineer
Creative Commons

Tim Olsen wrote:

Hi,

My coworkers and I are adding to LimeWire the ability to upload
CC-licensed files to the Internet Archive. I noticed ccPublisher has
this ability. Does anyone know of a published API for interfacing to
the Internet Archive?

I've tried asking this on the Internet Archive discuss list
(archivists-talk AT yahoogroups.com), but haven't received a response
yet.

thanks,
Tim
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