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Analyzing Internet Archive media popularity and trends — with Internet Archive Search Scraper

Content researchers and digital archivists can use this data to understand what media is being accessed on archive.org. It is useful for anyone tracking the reach and historical addition of digital assets.

This data answers questions about which specific items in the catalog are being downloaded most frequently and when they were added to the collection. It allows users to filter by media type to see trends across movies, books, audio, or software.

You can use the identifier and title to locate specific files, while the mediatype helps categorize the content. The downloads field indicates the popularity of an item, and the publicdate shows when the item was first made available.

Call it

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With curl:

curl -G "https://internet-archive-search-api-books-movies-audio-software.p.rapidapi.com/v1/internet-archive" \
  --data-urlencode query=collection:prelinger \
  --data-urlencode limit=20 \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Key: $RAPIDAPI_KEY" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Host: internet-archive-search-api-books-movies-audio-software.p.rapidapi.com"

With Python (pip install requests):

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://internet-archive-search-api-books-movies-audio-software.p.rapidapi.com/v1/internet-archive",
    params={'query': 'collection:prelinger', 'limit': 20},
    headers={"X-RapidAPI-Key": os.environ["RAPIDAPI_KEY"], "X-RapidAPI-Host": "internet-archive-search-api-books-movies-audio-software.p.rapidapi.com"},
    timeout=120,
)
for item in r.json()["items"]:
    print(item)

Every parameter, field and a sample of the output: Internet Archive Search Scraper.

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