Grabbing just the original files from Internet Archive objects

Time for another little magic spell that I need to jot down before I forget it. And this time for the Internet Archive’s command line tools.

Occasionally you’ll want to grab an object but you won’t want any of the Internet Archive-derived products. This can be done via…

ia download --source=original <object name>

And there you go – a whole bunch of bandwidth and disk saved!

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