This project helps to bulk upload files to internet archive.

INSTALL

install python3

Then install the python library "internetarchive"

python3 -m pip install internetarchive

check here https://archive.org/developers/internetarchive/ for more details.

configure ia

ia configure

It will ask for your credentials for archive.org give them and ensure the config is saved.

Steps

1. copy all the files you want upload to a specific folder
2. copy the files get_all_filenames.py and ia-bulk-upload.py to that folder
3. Run the command

python3 get_all_filenames.py

This will create file called files_list.csv with all the file names in the current folder

4. Create a CSV file, metadata.csv with below fields, using libreoffice calc, or MS excel or google sheets.

file,identifier,title,alt_title,creator,alt_creator,publisher,alt_publisher,year,source,description,collection,license,language,mediatype,subject

5. copy the contents from files_list.csv and paste in the "file" column.

6. Fill title with original name of the item. This can be in native language or english

7. Fill alt_title with an english title. Must be in english

8. leave the identifier as empty

9. Fill other columns.

10. The manditory fields are title, alt_title, creator, language

11. The more info you give, the more good.

12. if you need to give multiple values for author or subjects, seperate them with ;

13. Then run the below command

python3 ia-bulk-upload.py

This will upload all the files to archive.org

On completion, the file will be moved to a folder "success_folder" On error, the file will be moved to "error_folder" or kept on current folder.

License

General Public License V3