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  • From: "Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT yergler.net>
  • To: Tim Olsen <tolsen718 AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] API to Internet Archive?
  • Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:47:22 -0500

Yes, both interfaces I described require you to generate and upload two XML files -- one containing the metadata and the other describing the other files you're uploading. So you end up building a FTP client into your app.

I had the links in emails from folks at the IA (some of whom are no longer there) from the past year of development. I always end up having to go digging in my email, because i can never find them when I need them :).

Nathan

Tim Olsen wrote:

Hi Nathan,

So the Direct Contribution Interface still involves uploading the
metadata xml files, right?

btw, how did you find those links? Google can only find the link for
the Advanced Contribution interface, and Google found it linked from a
forum post from last year.

thanks for your help! It's really appreciated!

-Tim

On 10/10/05, Nathan R. Yergler <nathan AT yergler.net> wrote:

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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