# About PHAROS

Proxy Internet Archive to gopher.

# Search

Example: To find Indian music, excluding commercial samples.

    description:(indian) AND -collection:samples_only AND 
         mediatype:audio AND subject:music

# Fields

* date:
  YYYY-MM-DD or [YYYY-MM-DD TO YYYY-MM-DD]
* mediatype:
  audio, collection, data, image, movies, software, texts, or web

# Media type key for search results

* [aud] = audio or etree
* [col] = collection
* [dat] = data
* [img] = image
* [mov] = movies
* [bin] = software
* [txt] = texts
* [web] = web

See also: <https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php>

# Limits

This service does not work in the lagrange browser.
Lagrange URI encodes the search string and also
mangles items that are not URI encoded.