iajs

Internet Archive JavaScript Client which supports reading and writing data in NodeJS and the Browser

The Internet Archive is a non-profit open platform for archiving the world's free websites, books, movies, software, music, and more.

This JavaScript library enables reading and writing to the Internet Archive APIs in NodeJS and in the browser. To learn more about the Internet Archive visit https://archive.org/about/.

It's lightweight with very little dependencies.

The major APIs are documented here https://archive.org/services/docs/api/index.html, but this library supports additional APIs to enable more functionality. It does not abstract much from the APIs, but rather aggregates access to them all in a single multi-purpose library.

This library contains enough functionality to create powerful experiments and new experiences using the Internet Archive's platform and data.

Installation

Through npm

npm i iajs

Load from CDN in browser

<script src="https://unpkg.com/iajs/dist/ia.browser.js"></script>

Live demos

https://rchrd2.github.io/iajs/examples/web/01.html

Usage Examples

<script src="https://unpkg.com/iajs/dist/ia.browser.js"></script>
<script>
ia.GifcitiesAPI.search("snowglobe").then(console.log);

ia.MetadataAPI.get({
  identifier: "mma_the_sphynx_and_great_pyramid_geezeh_271101",
}).then(console.log);

ia.SearchAPI.get({
  q: {collection: "metropolitanmuseumofart-gallery"},
  fields: ["identifier", "title"]
}).then(console.log);
</script>

Running NodeJS examples

npm i
node examples/node/01-hello.js

# this will ask you to sign in and create a login config file for other examples
node examples/node/02-login.js

node examples/node/03-reviews.js

# and so on...

Planned features

• ✅ Read item metadata and list of files (Metadata API)
• ✅ Update item metadata (Metadata API)
• ✅ Search (Search API)
• ✅ Search gifcities.org (GifCities API)
• ✅ Query related item API (Related Items API)
• ✅ Sign in with user/pass (Xauthn API)
• ✅ Sign in with s3 tokens
• ✅ Sign in from archive.org session cookies
• ✅ Add reviews (Reviews API)
• ✅ Add page to Wayback (Save Page Now API)
• ✅ Query the Wayback Machine (CDX and Available APIs)
• ✅ Add/remove/list favorites (bookmarks.php API)
• ✅ Create items (S3 API)
• ✅ Upload item files (S3 API)
• OpenLibrary.org APIs
• BookReaderJSIA aka manifest API
• Book IIIF API
• TV
• Radio
• List reviews by user
• Generate embed codes for books/videos/music files in item
• Include a JSON diff library
• more tbd

Misc

Note: I wanted to build this while I worked at Internet Archive, but did not have the bandwidth. Now I'm working on this in my free time.

See Also:

• Official Internet Archive Python Client - https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive

Screenshot of web usage example