ia_download_count.py

import internetarchive as ia

# Create a session and search for items with CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license
session = ia.search_items('licenseurl:"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/"')

# Print the number of items found
print(f'Found {session.num_found} items with CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.')

# Define fields to be retrieved for each item
fields = ["identifier", "title", "collection", "downloads", "description", "date"]

# Retrieve details for each item and print the download count
for item in session:
    identifier = item['identifier']

    results = ia.search_items(f"identifier:{identifier}", fields=fields)
    for result in results:
        print(f"The item {identifier} has {result['downloads']} downloads.")
        print(result)
        
# Found 96179 items with CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
# #The item 001HistoriaInternetP1 has 931 downloads.
# # {
# #     'date': '2019-04-01T00:00:00Z', 
# #     'identifier': '001HistoriaInternetP1', 
# #     'downloads': 931, 
# #     'description': 'Episódio numero um do versão beta explicando a história da internet', 
# #     'collection': ['podcasts_miscellaneous', 'podcasts'], 
# #     'title': 'História da Internet - Parte 1'
# # }