Re: trying to parse lines from an awkwardly formatted HAR file ...
On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 02:05:06PM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> Actually, in order to deX-Y it in case anyone can offer any help, it
> is more like "I want an index of all the books which have ever been
> written/published" in order to read all of them ;-)
First of all, you will not achieve this goal. It is not possible for
a human to read every book that has ever been written. You'll die
before you can even finish a tiny fraction of them.
So, let's say you have a more realistic goal: you want a list of all the
books written by Charles Dickens.
I tried to figure out how to get this out of archive.org but it looks
like their documentation doesn't match their web page. I started at
<https://archive.org/developers/simplelists.html> which shows how to
get a list of "items" which all share a common "parent". I figure
an author might be a reasonable parent. So then the next question is
how to get the author ID for Charles Dickens.
Next I went to
<https://archive.org/developers/tutorial-find-identifier-item.html>
which tells me I should perform a search on their front page, and
then on the result page, click something called "Media List".
This is where it all falls apart for me. I can't find a "Media List"
thing to click on.
The documentation also mentions an "ABOUT" that I should be able
to click on to get an Identifier. Well, that's not a thing I could
find either. There's an ABOUT link in the top menu bar, which goes to
<https://archive.org/about/> which is clearly not what the documentation
was talking about.
All this is far too much of my time wasted trying to help some random
person with an off-topic question on debian-user, so... good luck.
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