2020-prototyping-notebooks/UrsulaFranklin.ipynb

Ursula Franklin¶

You can find the recordings of her Massey lectures on archive.org. Note the URL:

https://archive.org/details/the-real-world-of-technology

You can also access the API of archive.org to get information in a structured format that you can use in a script...

<https://archive.org/details/the-real-world-of-technology&output=json

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identifier = "the-real-world-of-technology"
url = f"https://archive.org/details/{identifier}"

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from urllib.request import urlopen
import json

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f = urlopen(url+"&output=json")

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feed = json.load(f)

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feed

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len(feed['files'])

According to the Archive.org API:

A particular file can always be downloaded from:

 https://archive.org/download/<identifier>/<filename>

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# this is something specific to notebooks...
from IPython.display import HTML, display

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for filename, d in feed['files'].items():
    if d['format'] == "VBR MP3":
        display(HTML(f'<h2>{d["title"]}</h2>'))
        display(HTML(f'<audio src="https://archive.org/download/{identifier}{filename}" controls></audio>'))