ia

Command-line tool to interact with archive.org. More information: <https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/cli.html>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/ia.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install internetarchive
Ubuntu
apt-get install internetarchive
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install internetarchive
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install internetarchive
OS X
brew install internetarchive
Raspbian
apt-get install python-duckduckgo2
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/ia

Command-line tool to interact with archive.org. More information: <https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/cli.html>.

  • Configure `ia` with API keys (some functions won't work without this step):
    ia configure
  • Upload one or more items to `archive.org`:
    ia upload identifier path/to/file --metadata="mediatype:data" --metadata="title:example"
  • Download one or more items from `archive.org`:
    ia download item
  • Delete one or more items from `archive.org`:
    ia delete identifier file
  • Search on `archive.org`, returning results as JSON:
    ia search 'subject:"subject" collection:collection'

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