Given an IA catalog.php URL, returns a list of dictionaries (1 dictionary/row).

ia_catalog.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os, sys
import requests
import json

COOKIES = {'logged-in-sig': os.environ['LOGGED_IN_SIG'],
           'logged-in-user': os.environ['LOGGED_IN_USER'],
           'verbose': '1',
}


def get_rows(URL):
    CATALOG_PARAMS = {'json': 1, 'output': 'json', 'callback': 'foo',
                      'verbose': 1}
    req = requests.get(URL, params=CATALOG_PARAMS, cookies=COOKIES)
    rows = [json.loads(x.strip(',').replace('])', '')) for x in
            req.text.replace('foo','').split('\n') if len(x) > 20]
    dict_list = []
    for row in rows:
        catalog_dict = dict(identifier=row[0],
                            srvr=row[1],
                            cmd=row[2],
                            time=row[3],
                            submitter=row[4],
                            args=row[5],
                            extra=row[6])
        dict_list.append(catalog_dict)
    return dict_list

# USAGE:
URL = 'http://www-tracey.us.archive.org/catalog.php?mode=users'
print get_rows(URL)