You can then seed the torrent with one of the many graphical clients (e.g.
mktorrent or buildtorrent, example: mktorrent -a udp://:80/announce -a udp://:80 -a udp://:80 -a udp://:80 -a -a "DIRECTORYTOUPLOAD"
For a command line tool you can use e.g.
will connect to you and other peers via a Transmission daemon and keep downloading all the contents till done.
Just create the item, make a torrent with your files in it, name it like the item, and upload it to the item.
Torrent upload, useful if you need resume (for huge files or because your bandwidth is insufficient for upload in one go): (No longer developed since 2014, but still functional.)
INTERNET ARCHIVE APP ARCHIVE
UserScript: “AutoSave to Internet Archive - Wayback Machine” by user “Flare0n”.
JavaScript Bookmarklet and Chrome extension made by that provide a fast way to submit pages on the Internet Archive.
Many scripts have been written to use the live proxy:
There's also an email address where to send lists of URLs in the body, useful to submit automatic email digests (could not independently verify its functioning as of September 2019).
To input a list of URLs, (avoid trying to send many thousands URLs there's Archivebot for that).
INTERNET ARCHIVE APP UPDATE
See October 2019 update for details including access requests.
For quick one-shot webpage archiving, use the Wayback Machine's "Save Page Now" tool.
S3 interface (for direct usage with curl, or indirect with the tool of your choice)ĭon't use FTP upload, try to keep your items below 400 GiB size, add plenty of metadata.
Handy script for mass upload () with automatic error checking and retry.
internetarchive Python library is the main tool now, see the extensive.
The are three main methods to upload items to Internet Archive programmatically: Upload any content you manage to preserve! Registering takes a minute. Search made 21:56, 17 January 2016 (EST) (this is just from the (mutable) "addeddate" metadata, so it might change, although it shouldn't)
Books/Music/Video Collections: 42 PetaBytes.
4 data centers, 745 nodes, 28,000 spinning disks.
Books/Music/Video Collections: 9.8 PetaBytes.
4 data centers, 550 nodes, 20,000 spinning disks.
Books/Music/Video Collections: 1.7 PetaBytes.
4 data centers, 1,300 nodes, 11,000 spinning disks.
See that page and the section #Backing up the Internet Archive. Some manually-selected collections are also mirrored manually as part of the project INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK. There are currently two mirrors of the Internet Archive collection - the official mirror available at, and a second mirror at Bibliotheca Alexandrina.