Be aware, however, that even if you follow Mr. Morris' advice, you probably still won't get what you want or asked for.
Despite its name, OpenLibrary is not a Library. It's just an electronic catalog of books that may, nor may not, exist in The Real World. Now /some/, but nowhere near all, of the catalog records stored at OpenLibrary refer to books that are stored in a raw scanned format at the Internet Archive. If what you want is a list of all the books which 1. exist at Internet Archive, and 2. have a corresponding record in the OpenLibrary database, I'm sure it is possible to get a data dump of the entire OpenLibrary metadata, then scan all the records for those having links back to Internet Archive. (I don't know how to recognize those links without doing more research than I am willing to do. One of the DB experts here could help, I'm sure.) There may be a native way to say "please return all the records which point to works at the Internet Archive", but I don't know what it is. Again, someone else may know more; there is a lot of tribal knowledge about OL that exists only in peoples' brains. On 7/12/2013 1:00 PM, Tom Morris wrote: > To get that information you'll need to use at least the editions dump > (5.1 GB) and the authors dump (1.2 GB), so you're not really saving much > over downloading the entire dump (and I'm not sure you won't need the > works file to get the author or subject/genre in certain cases). Since > there were 77 million editions and 9.3 million authors as of last > summer, and probably more now, even your subset of info is still going > to be of substantial size. > > If you are unable or unwilling to download the dump and extract the > desired information yourself, you're going to need to get someone else > to do it for you. OpenLibrary only makes available the complete dump > and the three subsets (works, editions, authors). > > Tom > > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Saurabh Kumar <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Thanks again. I am looking for: > 1) Title > 2) Author > 3) Genre (if available) [ fiction, poetry etc] > 4) ISBN ID > 5) Publisher > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Tom Morris <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > The works dump is 1.2 GB. > > Since you don't want "the list of all books available on > openlibrary.org <http://openlibrary.org/> along with their meta > data," as your message stated, perhaps you could describe > exactly which metadata you do want and what you are willing to > pay (in bandwidth or time or dollars) to get it. > > Tom > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:24 AM, Saurabh Kumar > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hey, > > Thanks for your reply. > I do not want to download the entire dump file (7-8 GB), I > am just looking for the list of the book titles and > corresponding authors available on openlibrary. > > Saurabh > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Tom Morris > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > You could try Googling "openlibrary dump" and you'd > probably find what you seek. > > Tom > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Saurabh Kumar > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is it possible to get the list of all books > available on openlibrary.org > <http://openlibrary.org/> along with their meta data > (e.g. ISBN, author, genre)? Can it be downloaded as > a csv or a mysql DB dump? > > If not, what is the best possible way to gather such > a list? 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