{"id":109,"date":"2015-05-16T00:14:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T00:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reisun.org\/?p=109"},"modified":"2015-05-16T00:22:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T00:22:57","slug":"downloading-retro-magazines-from-internet-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Downloading Retro Magazines from Internet Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve recently gotten interested in retro-Apple II things. I owned a ][+ and a IIgs as a kid and also experimented with emulators (Applewin and KEGS32) later on. <\/p>\n

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One of the many magazines I subscribed to back then was Open Apple. It struck just the right balance between being informative and being humorous\/witty, in the vein of the Beagle Bros products and literature. (I still remember sending a letter to Bert Kersey and getting a personal response)<\/p>\n

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The Internet archive<\/a> has been amassing quite the collection of Apple II material, including scans of books and magazines. I still have a binder somewhere of original Open Apple magazines, but it is much more convenient to read them in pdf form.<\/p>\n

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I am also quite the python fan, having used it since the 1.x days. There is a python module, internetarchive<\/a>, that quite effectively allows you to search and download collections from the Internet Archive. Most examples I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen use the command line script ia<\/em>, but  I (erroneously) thought it would be difficult to get working on a Windows platform. I decided to use the library directly in python to search for and download the entire open apple collection, in pdf (and .epub) format.<\/p>\n

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What follows is the short program in interactive mode I used. I ran this twice, first without the no_directory parameter in get_item and then with, so that I could have two sets of the collection: one for archival in neat directory structure, and another in one directory to transfer to calibre and eventually my kindles. <\/p>\n

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>>> from internetarchive import get_item, search_items<\/font><\/p>\n

>>> search=search_items(‘collection:openapplemagazine’)<\/font><\/p>\n

>>> search.num_found<\/font><\/p>\n

>>> for result in search:
…     try:
…         get_item(result[‘identifier’]).download(glob_pattern= ‘*.pdf’, no_directory=True)
…     except: # silently catch all errors (most commonly, IOErrors if file exists already)
…         pass<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Another magazine that I remember, but not as fondly as I do Open Apple, is Softalk. The search term for that is collection:softalkapple.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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