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0 If you're interested in downloading bulk data dumps of Open Library's books, authors, and subjects catalog, [click here](/developers/dumps). 0 <a name="bulk_download"> </a>
1 ##Bulk Download##
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3 Open Library provides dumps of all its records in JSON format. If you want to download everything, please use this instead of our [API][8].
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5 See [Open Library Data Dumps](/developers/dumps) documentation for details.
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8 This page is mainly about *sending* data into Open Library. If you're curious about getting data back out in something other than a dump of the entire dataset, [check out our API][5].
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21 - Create an archive.org account: [https://www.archive.org/account/login.createaccount.php][6] 25 - Create an archive.org account: [https://archive.org/account/signup][6]
22 - <strike>FTP the files to catalog-upload.archive.org using the username (most likely your email address) and password you just created.</strike> This doesn't seem to be working right now. 22 - <strike>FTP the files to catalog-upload.archive.org using the username (most likely your email address) and password you just created.</strike> This doesn't seem to be working right now.
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32 We are also analyzing relationships between works (example: all of these editions of Tom Sawyer are all editions the same conceptual work). From this we can add relationships to each object and create new objects (like works). This process is known in the library world as "FRBRization". See [https://frbr.org][7] for more information. <a name="downloads"> </a> 36 We are also analyzing relationships between works (example: all of these editions of Tom Sawyer are all editions the same conceptual work). From this we can add relationships to each object and create new objects (like works). This process is known in the library world as "FRBRization". See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Requirements_for_Bibliographic_Records][7] for more information. <a name="downloads"> </a>
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34 <a name="bulk_download"> </a>
35 ##Bulk Download##
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37 Open Library provides dumps of all its records in JSON format. If you want to download everything, please use this instead of our [API][8].
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39 See [Open Library Data Dumps](/developers/dumps) documentation for details.
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41 We're looking forward to making the API more flexible so you don't have to download the whole thing in chunks.
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71  [5]: https://github.com/openlibrary 71  [5]: https://github.com/openlibrary
72  [6]: https://www.archive.org/account/login.createaccount.php 68  [6]: https://archive.org/account/signup
73  [7]: https://frbr.org 69  [7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Requirements_for_Bibliographic_Records
74  [8]: https://upstream.openlibrary.org/developers/api 74  [8]: https://upstream.openlibrary.org/developers/api
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81  [18]: https://code.google.com/p/openpub/wiki/OPDS 81  [18]: https://code.google.com/p/openpub/wiki/OPDS