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getting only certain formats in .zip files from items — new feature

Per some requests from our friends in the Live Music Archive community…

You can get any archive.org item downloaded to your local machine as a .zip file (that we’ve been doing for 5+ years!)
But whereas before it would be all files/formats,
now you can be pick/selective about *just* certain formats.

We’ll put links up on audio item pages, minimally, but the url pattern is simple for any item.
It looks like (where you replace IDENTIFIER with the identifier of your item (eg: thing after archive.org/details/)):

http://archive.org/compress/IDENTIFIER

for the entire item, and for just certain formats:

http://archive.org/compress/IDENTIFIER/formats=format1,format2,format3,….

Example:


wget -q -O - 'http://archive.org/compress/ellepurr/formats=Metadata,Checksums,Flac' > zip; unzip -l zip
Archive: zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
1107614 2012-10-30 19:49 elle.flac
44 2012-10-30 19:49 ellepurr.md5
3114 2012-10-30 19:49 ellepurr_files.xml
693 2012-10-30 19:49 ellepurr_meta.xml
602 2012-10-30 19:49 ellepurr_reviews.xml
--------- -------
1112067 5 files

Enjoy!!