There are APIs and it would be great if more people and organizations built on top of them, and specifically build content or collection-specific interfaces.
Hot linking, CORS, and other things to support third-party integration are usually supported, though there are a lot of special cases for security or to prevent malicious use. If you run in to technical problems we are usually responsive to the main contact routes on the archive.org site.
The system is not designed to allow multi-party curation and editing of metadata, but there is nothing stopping folks from building third-party catalogs on top of the content stored (and served) from IA. That is sort of what openlibrary.org is for books. The same thing could be done for music, video, specific documents, etc.
Note: I work at IA but not on the APIs or archive.org collections
Here is the entry point for API documentation: https://archive.org/services/docs/api/
Hot linking, CORS, and other things to support third-party integration are usually supported, though there are a lot of special cases for security or to prevent malicious use. If you run in to technical problems we are usually responsive to the main contact routes on the archive.org site.
The system is not designed to allow multi-party curation and editing of metadata, but there is nothing stopping folks from building third-party catalogs on top of the content stored (and served) from IA. That is sort of what openlibrary.org is for books. The same thing could be done for music, video, specific documents, etc.
Note: I work at IA but not on the APIs or archive.org collections