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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}}'