Firecrawl Alexandria

BFI Collections Search

Name: BFI Collections Search
Creator: BFI Collections Search

BFI Collections Search (collections-search.bfi.org.uk), the British Film Institute's public catalogue of the BFI National Archive and BFI Reuben Library (Axiell Internet Server): expert search of any of its 12 databases (film and television works, film/video items, books, serials, articles, press cuttings, scripts and documents, posters, stills, special collections, library, persons and institutions) with field conditions, sorting and paging; the full label/value record of a work, person, item or book with its cross-reference links and the related records of its hierarchy; the searchable fields and sort options of a database; and controlled-vocabulary term lookups (genre, subject, ...). Read-only; no selections, downloads or e-mail features.

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const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "collections-search-bfi-org-uk",
    capability: "records/get_record",
    options: {
      database: "People",
      priref: "222439",
    },
  },
});

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{
  "database": "People",
  "fields": [
    {
      "label": "Name",
      "lines": [
        "Stanley Holloway (view filmography / view articles about person / view articles by person)"
      ],
      "links": [
        {
          "database": "ChoiceFilmWorks",
          "field": "Field_Cast_Credit_Reference",
          "priref": null,
          "text": "view filmography",
          "url": "https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/detail?database=ChoiceFilmWorks&fieldname=Field_Cast_Credit_Reference&value=222439",
          "value": "222439"
        },
        {
          "database": "ChoiceArticles",
          "field": "Field_PersonKeyword_Reference",
          "priref": null,
          "text": "view articles about person",
          "url": "https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/detail?database=ChoiceArticles&fieldname=Field_PersonKeyword_Reference&value=222439",
          "value": "222439"
        },
        {
          "database": "ChoiceArticles",
          "field": "Field_AuthorName_Reference",
          "priref": null,
          "text": "view articles by person",
          "url": "https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/detail?database=ChoiceArticles&fieldname=Field_AuthorName_Reference&value=222439",
          "value": "222439"
        }
      ],
      "value": "Stanley Holloway (view filmography / view articles about person / view articles by person)"
    },
    {
      "label": "Name note",
      "lines": [
        "Born Stanley Augustus Holloway. Son actor Julian Holloway."
      ],
      "links": [],
      "value": "Born Stanley Augustus Holloway. Son actor Julian Holloway."
    },
    {
      "label": "Activity type",
      "lines": [
        "Cast (person)",
        "Direction (person)",
        "Presentation (person)"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "value": "Cast (person)\nDirection (person)\nPresentation (person)"
    },
    {
      "label": "Birth date",
      "lines": [
        "1890-10-01"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "value": "1890-10-01"
    },
    {
      "label": "Birth country",
      "lines": [
        "England"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "value": "England"
    },
    {
      "label": "Birth place",
      "lines": [
        "Manor House, London"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "value": "Manor House, London"
    },
    {
      "label": "Death date",
      "lines": [
        "1982-01-30"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "value": "1982-01-30"
    },
    {
      "label": "Death country",
      "lines": [
        "England"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "value": "England"
    },
    {
      "label": "Death place",
      "lines": [
        "Littlehampton Sussex"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "value": "Littlehampton Sussex"
    },
    {
      "label": "Nationality",
      "lines": [
        "English"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "value": "English"
    },
    {
      "label": "-other materials",
      "lines": [
        "micro-jacket",
        "stills"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "value": "micro-jacket\nstills"
    },
    {
      "label": "Stills",
      "lines": [
        "black and white",
        "transparency"
      ],
      "links": [],
      "value": "black and white\ntransparency"
    }
  ],
  "observed_at_ms": 1791608410545,
  "priref": "222439",
  "related_records": [],
  "source_url": "https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/People/222439",
  "title": "Stanley Holloway"
}