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Re:Lawsuit accuses Anna's Archive of hacking WorldCat by wongarsu on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:17PM (#39295058)
A software developer who once volunteered at a library in 2012 wrote in that very year a Python library to interact with a library catalog [1]. What more evidence do you need that she was involved in a scraping operation in [checks notes] 2023?

Her name (Maria Dolores Anasztasia Matienzo) even contains the letters Anna (almost), so she must be the mastermind behind Anna's Archive!

Her library is the top search result if you search for WorldCat in github. Though I personally would have gone with bookops-worldcat, since they claim they made major changes to the library to account for 2020 API changes in WorldCat.

1: https://github.com/anarchivist/worldcat

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Re:Lawsuit accuses Anna's Archive of hacking WorldCat by gpm on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @05:25PM (#39295135)
Welp, I glanced at her github and when I decent see any recent related projects assumed that it had been taken private, it didn't even occur to me to look at projects that hadn't been touched in a decade!
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Re:Lawsuit accuses Anna's Archive of hacking WorldCat by alchemist1e9 on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @10:11PM (#39297535)
This personal is likely originally named Mark Matienzo and won the top award in 2012 from the Society of American Archivists. Details in another comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297548

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