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Find public-domain books on archive.org by subject

Searches archive.org’s text collection for books tagged with a subject — science fiction here — ordered by download count, and returns 150 items with title, creators, date, subjects, description, language, download count, size and the item page URL. Change the query to any subject, author or collection to build a reading list or a text corpus. $0.40 per 1,000 items.

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Internet Archive API — Search, Metadata & Files
Internet Archive API — Search, Metadata & Filesinsight.solutions/internet-archive-api
Position
Identifier
Title
Creators
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Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Search queries:subject:"science fiction" AND mediatype:texts
Media type:texts
Result order:downloads
Results per query:150
Include file rows:false

Output fields

Position
Identifier
Title
Creators
Media type
Item date
Collections
Subjects
Downloads
Item size (bytes)
Average rating
Licence URL
Item page

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Create your Apify account to access the Internet Archive API — Search, Metadata & Files.

Start the run02

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Receive the output03

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Integrate into your workflow04

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow.

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