This is a program that could make life a bit easier to navigate "archive-dot-org" if the user is only looking to download music or video.
N.B. This requires a bit of research to configure the program as desired. As it stands it only works for audio (FLAC, MP3, OGG, WAV etc.) This research is to obtain the "subjects" which are tags that have to be written precisely into a web address. On "archive-dot-org" some categories are written out like plain English, capitalized short phrases with spaces, which cannot stand into a web address. The site has a chooser of subjects which puts down stuff which could be unpredictable. (Sometimes it chooses "multiple categories" which is the same word or words but in different upper-lower-case combinations.) Therefore the user must tinker a little bit to obtain a subject tag for use with this program. It's a vain attempt to make this program more flexible.
This program requires one text file, and it's recommended to provide another. The required file has one line which is the full path of the executable to the web browser. Because I programmed this on Linux, I'm not familiar with a way to launch the web browser from an user's QB64 program on MacOS or on Windows. I also programmed to launch the AppImage which might appear clumsy to some of you. This file is not provided, you will have to create it. It is called "helparchorg-browser.txt", it must reside in the same directory as the executable. This program only reads the first line of this file, so make sure it has a correct entry.
It's recommended to have also "helparchorg-category.txt". It could also be called "helparchorg-subject.txt". Here you will put down a subject, one per line, for the media that is sought. If you want two categories at a time then put each tag joined by a plus sign. At the moment no more than two categories could be joined.
The program reads the text files, tells the user that it found the web browser, and then shows a menu with the categories. If there's only one then it's "electronic", at the moment, but this could be changed in the source code. The user types in a number for the subject or subjects he/she desires and presses [ENTER]. Pressing [ENTER] with no entry quits the program.
After that, the user is asked what year of creation or release for the media sought, starting with 2013. Again, this could be modified in the source code. Type in the menu choice for the year, not the year itself LOL, and press [ENTER]. Press [ENTER] without entry at this point to leave the program.
This program then launches the web browser with the address fabricated from the data it was given.
For this program as it stands, try this as "helparchorg-category.txt":
N.B. This requires a bit of research to configure the program as desired. As it stands it only works for audio (FLAC, MP3, OGG, WAV etc.) This research is to obtain the "subjects" which are tags that have to be written precisely into a web address. On "archive-dot-org" some categories are written out like plain English, capitalized short phrases with spaces, which cannot stand into a web address. The site has a chooser of subjects which puts down stuff which could be unpredictable. (Sometimes it chooses "multiple categories" which is the same word or words but in different upper-lower-case combinations.) Therefore the user must tinker a little bit to obtain a subject tag for use with this program. It's a vain attempt to make this program more flexible.
This program requires one text file, and it's recommended to provide another. The required file has one line which is the full path of the executable to the web browser. Because I programmed this on Linux, I'm not familiar with a way to launch the web browser from an user's QB64 program on MacOS or on Windows. I also programmed to launch the AppImage which might appear clumsy to some of you. This file is not provided, you will have to create it. It is called "helparchorg-browser.txt", it must reside in the same directory as the executable. This program only reads the first line of this file, so make sure it has a correct entry.
It's recommended to have also "helparchorg-category.txt". It could also be called "helparchorg-subject.txt". Here you will put down a subject, one per line, for the media that is sought. If you want two categories at a time then put each tag joined by a plus sign. At the moment no more than two categories could be joined.
The program reads the text files, tells the user that it found the web browser, and then shows a menu with the categories. If there's only one then it's "electronic", at the moment, but this could be changed in the source code. The user types in a number for the subject or subjects he/she desires and presses [ENTER]. Pressing [ENTER] with no entry quits the program.
After that, the user is asked what year of creation or release for the media sought, starting with 2013. Again, this could be modified in the source code. Type in the menu choice for the year, not the year itself LOL, and press [ENTER]. Press [ENTER] without entry at this point to leave the program.
This program then launches the web browser with the address fabricated from the data it was given.
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'by mnrvovrfc 6-July-2023
OPTION _EXPLICIT
DIM AS INTEGER c, lsubj, j, plu
DIM prefx$, afile$, launchprog$, comd$, asubj$, ayear$, entry$
DIM fe AS LONG
prefx$ = "helparchorg-"
afile$ = prefx$ + "browser.txt"
IF NOT _FILEEXISTS(afile$) THEN
PRINT "The web browser wasn't found! Aborting."
END
END IF
fe = FREEFILE
OPEN afile$ FOR INPUT AS fe
DO UNTIL EOF(fe)
LINE INPUT #fe, entry$
entry$ = _TRIM$(entry$)
IF entry$ <> "" AND launchprog$ = "" THEN
launchprog$ = entry$
EXIT DO
END IF
LOOP
CLOSE fe
IF NOT _FILEEXISTS(launchprog$) THEN
PRINT "The web browser wasn't found! Aborting."
END
END IF
PRINT "Discovered web browser executable called:"
PRINT launchprog$
afile$ = prefx$ + "subject.txt"
IF NOT _FILEEXISTS(afile$) THEN
afile$ = prefx$ + "category.txt"
END IF
IF _FILEEXISTS(afile$) THEN
fe = FREEFILE
OPEN afile$ FOR INPUT AS fe
DO UNTIL EOF(fe)
LINE INPUT #fe, entry$
entry$ = _TRIM$(entry$)
IF entry$ <> "" THEN lsubj = lsubj + 1
LOOP
CLOSE fe
IF lsubj < 1 THEN
PRINT "At least one entry required from input file!"
END
END IF
REDIM subj(1 TO lsubj) AS STRING
c = 0
fe = FREEFILE
OPEN afile$ FOR INPUT AS fe
DO UNTIL EOF(fe)
LINE INPUT #fe, entry$
entry$ = _TRIM$(entry$)
IF entry$ <> "" THEN
c = c + 1
subj(c) = entry$
END IF
LOOP
CLOSE fe
ELSE
lsubj = 1
REDIM subj(1 TO lsubj) AS STRING
subj(lsubj) = "electronic"
END IF
PRINT "*** archive-dot-org helper ***"
IF lsubj = 1 THEN
PRINT: PRINT "There's only one category available: "; subj(1)
asubj$ = subj(1)
ELSE
PRINT: PRINT "Please choose your category."
FOR j = 1 TO lsubj
PRINT USING "(##)"; j;
PRINT " "; subj(j)
NEXT
LINE INPUT entry$
entry$ = _TRIM$(entry$)
IF entry$ = "" THEN SYSTEM
c = VAL(entry$)
IF c > 0 AND c <= lsubj THEN
asubj$ = subj(c)
ELSE
PRINT "Incorrect input given! Aborting."
END
END IF
END IF
PRINT: PRINT "Please choose the year of release."
FOR j = 2013 TO 2023
PRINT USING "(####)"; j - 2012;
PRINT " "; j
NEXT
LINE INPUT entry$
entry$ = _TRIM$(entry$)
IF entry$ = "" THEN SYSTEM
c = VAL(entry$)
IF c > 0 AND c < 12 THEN
ayear$ = _TRIM$(STR$(c + 2012))
ELSE
PRINT "Incorrect input given! Aborting."
END
END IF
comd$ = launchprog$ + " 'https://archive.org/details/audio?and[]=year%3A%22" + ayear$ + _
"%22&and[]=mediatype%3A%22audio%22&and[]=subject%3A%22"
plu = INSTR(asubj$, "+")
IF plu > 0 THEN
comd$ = comd$ + LEFT$(asubj$, plu - 1) + "%22&and[]=subject%3A%22" + MID$(asubj$, plu + 1) + "%22'"
ELSE
comd$ = comd$ + asubj$ + "%22'"
END IF
SHELL _HIDE _DONTWAIT comd$
SYSTEM
For this program as it stands, try this as "helparchorg-category.txt":
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electronic
podcast
Popular Music+Jazz
![[Image: archiveorghelp-example.png]](https://i.ibb.co/hBbjTJf/archiveorghelp-example.png)
