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Internet Archive Mcp Server

io.github.cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server · v0.5.1

Search the Wayback Machine and IA library (40M+ items), fetch snapshots, item metadata, and text.

Connect Remote server

Terminal
claude mcp add --transport http internet-archive-mcp-server https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "internet-archive-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "internet-archive-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
Claude Desktop
Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
URL: https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Tools 5 found in our last check

  • ia_find_snapshots

    Find 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_snapshot

    Fetch 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_items

    Search 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_item

    Retrieve 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_text

    Retrieve 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

Endpointhttps://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
Package@cyanheads/[email protected] (NPM, stdio)
Package@cyanheads/[email protected] (NPM, streamable-http)
First published12 Nov 2026
Last updated12 Nov 2026
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