Description

Seach internet archive for a given collection and year range and return metadata in CSV format

Pre-requisites

• Poetry - Install by running the following command: curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

Initialize Poetry

Run the following command in this project directory -

poetry update

Usage

./ia_search.sh <start-year> <end-year> <collection>

where collections are mapped as follows -

americana - a
europeanlibraries - e
toronto - c
gutenberg - g
princeton - p

For e.g.

./ia_search.sh 1640 1641 a

The output will be a file named output.csv.