TIARA    

The Internet Archive Research Assistant

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A tool to search the Internet Archive
for new items matching your keyword
search-list.

Can be run with CronTab for daily
updates about new items relevant
to your ongoing research.

It keeps track of the items you have
discovered in the past and will only
alert you to ones new to you.

Findings are placed in an HTML file,
which can be sent as an email via
SendGrid to you automatically.

Usage

Simply place your keywords / phrases into /Source/searchlist.txt .

Example

"Pliny The Elder"
Willamette River
Atari 1200XL computer
...

Notes

Put words in double quotes to do an exact phrase match. Willamette River without quotes will find documents that have both of those words, perahps pages apart. "Willamette River" with quotes will find documents with those words together.

Try not to use generic terms like dogs , as this will return too many daily hits.

Requirements

• The script requires read / write access to its directory

• Internet Archive Command Line Tool

  pip3 install internetarchive