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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Use BFI Collections Search for Get record. Inspect the Alexandria inputs, ask for any missing required details, and return a small sample with sources.

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1Request

conditionsobject[]Required

Field conditions combined in order with each condition's connective (the first connective is ignored by the site).

databasestringRequired

Database (the form's SourceName): ChoiceFilmWorks = Film and Television Works, ChoiceFilmItems = film/video items, People = Persons and Institutions, ChoiceBooks, ChoiceSerials, ChoiceArticles, ChoicePresscuttings, ChoiceArchive (scripts, documents, ephemera), ChoicePosters, ChoiceStills, ChoiceSpecialCollections, ChoiceLibrary.

pagenumber

1-based results page. Pass `next_page` from the previous output to continue.

page sizenumber

Records per page; the site offers exactly these sizes.

sort directionstring

sort_direction

sort fieldstring

Sort field from `list_search_fields` sort_options (Search_SortTitle, Search_SortTitleDate, Search_SortName, ...). Default Search_Unsorted (the site's relevance/record order).

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Codefollows the fields above

const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "collections-search-bfi-org-uk",
    capability: "records/search_records",
    options: {
      conditions: [
        {
          field: "Field_Name",
          value: "Holloway, Stanley",
        },
      ],
      database: "People",
      page_size: "10",
      sort_field: "Search_SortName",
    },
  },
});

2Response example

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count: 2
database: People
database_label: Persons and Institutions
next_page: null
observed_at_ms: 1791608339241
page: 1
page_count: 1
page_size: 10
search_description: Name = Holloway, Stanley
source_url: https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/results
total: 2

collections	detail_url	lines	links	position	priref	title
[]	collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/People/222439	Holloway, StanleyCast (person), Direction (person), Prese…Born: 1890-10-01, Manor House, London, E…	[]	1	222439	Holloway, Stanley
[]	collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/People/999592270	HOLLOWAY, Stanley	[]	2	999592270	HOLLOWAY, Stanley