Searching the Internet Archive for Texts

IASearch.java uses the Internet Archive's Advanced Search REST API to search for books and other texts.

Searches can use a mix of title, creator, and subject keywords. The retrieved information is listed and numbered, and the number can be utilized to open a download webpage at the Internet Archive site.

IASearch.java processes its command line arguments using the Picocli library, which I've described in more detail here. The JSON data returned by Java's HttpClient is converted to objects using Google GSON, with the mappings defined in InternetArchive.java.

Some Pictures

IASearch help:

A search using title (t) and creator (c) keywords:

A search using creator (c) and subject (s) keywords, with extra information (i) displayed about each match, and only matches listed that are freely downloadable (d):

A IASearch search for a title using a regex, along with the display of the download webpage of the eighth match (v 8):

Downloads and Links

• All of the source code in one handy zip file (12 KB), along with batch files to compile and run it on MS Windows.
   
  
• My copies of the Google GSON and Picocli libraries (580 KB). Unzip this and place the libs folder in the same directory as the examples.
   
  
• The Internet Archive's Advanced Search page, which includes a user interface for using the API and documentation on the JSON data fields that it can retrieve.