Search the Wayback Machine and IA library (40M+ items), fetch snapshots, item metadata, and text.
Connect Remote server
claude mcp add --transport http internet-archive-mcp-server https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"internet-archive-mcp-server": {
"url": "https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"internet-archive-mcp-server": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
}
}
}
Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
URL: https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Tools 5 found in our last check
ia_find_snapshotsFind Wayback Machine snapshots of a URL. Mode "closest" returns the single nearest capture to a given timestamp via the Availability API, falling back to a CDX closest-capture query when the Availability API finds no capture or answers with a rate limit, a server error, or an un…
ia_get_snapshotFetch the archived content of a URL at a specific Wayback Machine timestamp. Resolves to the nearest available capture when the exact timestamp has no snapshot. Returns the capture as text — an HTML page as readable plain text with its markup stripped, another text type (plain t…
ia_search_itemsSearch the Internet Archive library (40M+ items) using the Advanced Search (Solr) API. Filter by media type (texts, audio, movies, software, image, etc.), collection, creator, date range, and language. Sort by downloads (the default), date, title, or random. Supports pagination…
ia_get_itemRetrieve metadata and the file manifest for an Internet Archive item by identifier. Returns title, creator, description (as plain text), subjects, collections, license, language, publisher, ISBN, OCLC and LCCN numbers, Open Library edition and work IDs, volume, the page-image co…
ia_get_textRetrieve readable OCR DjVuTXT or plain text from an Internet Archive item, including public-domain books, documents, scanned periodicals, and transcripts. Each call reads one text file: the one file names, or by default the first DjVuTXT file (else Text, Plain Text, or another .…
Details
| Endpoint | https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP) |
| Package | @cyanheads/[email protected] (NPM, stdio) |
| Package | @cyanheads/[email protected] (NPM, streamable-http) |
| First published | 12 Nov 2026 |
| Last updated | 12 Nov 2026 |
| Registry name | io.github.cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server |
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