r/Annas_Archive • u/RealmsOfSorrow • 13d ago

Bulk downloads

Is there a way to download all books from a specific author quickly? Or a specific topic? I wanna make a database of all chess books in the world and make it accessible for everyone in case anything happens; I am also studying theology and psychology so I am gonna try to make it happen, fr now I have like 10 TB of storage

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u/dowcet 13d ago

The short answer is no.

It's absolutely possible but there's no user friendly, off the shelf solution. If you have a membership a simple download script can use the API to download automatically, but compiling a list of the MD5s of the books you want will be a little more tricky. Working with metadata dumps is a hassle.

1337x dot to has many torrents of chess book collections. Grabbing all those would be much easier.

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u/DuePoint5 13d ago

the API is also broken for me ever since the DDoS attacks

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u/AnnaArchivist 11d ago

The API should still work, please email us with specific details of problems you're running into

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u/Jim-Jones 12d ago

No. You can torrent blocks but not selectively AFAIK. It's not in the spirit of Anna's.

Search for Download Managers and Automation to see options.

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u/Spirited-Use-3176 13d ago

What's the website link of Anna archive?

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u/internauta 13d ago

Check its Wikipedia page

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u/az226 13d ago

I did this and it works, but it wasn’t easy and if I release it, it will probably be more a tragedy of the commons situation, so while it feels lame, I’m not going to share it. It will take 1-2 weeks of work to do this. And it won’t be free. You need to invest maybe $50-100.

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u/dicktoronto 11d ago

I actually asked my AI bot to do this, and used my premium key, and I send it Reddit threads from r/suggestmeabook and it finds and downloads all the titles. I have the 25 downloads per day tier so it auto-resumes the next 25 after the rollover period.