io.github.cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server

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Publisher-provided description

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

Summary by lookupd

Searches Internet Archive items and Wayback snapshots, retrieving archived pages, item metadata, file lists, and OCR text from scanned…

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http internet-archive-mcp-server https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Claude Code, npm package (stdio)

claude mcp add internet-archive-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server

Claude Code, npm package (stdio)

claude mcp add internet-archive-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add internet-archive-mcp-server --url https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Codex, npm package (stdio)

codex mcp add internet-archive-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server

Codex, npm package (stdio)

codex mcp add internet-archive-mcp-server -- npx -y @cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "internet-archive-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cursor, npm package (stdio) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "internet-archive-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Cursor, npm package (stdio) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "internet-archive-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Tools (5 tools)

Publisher-provided text

• 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
• 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.
• 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.), colle
• ia_get_item Retrieve metadata and the file manifest for an Internet Archive item by identifier. Returns title, creator, description, subjects, collections, license, languag
• ia_get_text Retrieve readable OCR DjVuTXT or plain text from an Internet Archive item, including public-domain books, documents, scanned periodicals, and transcripts. Set m

Details

• Version: 0.5.0
• Transports: streamable-http, stdio
• Uptime (7 days): 100%
• Median latency: 640 ms
• First indexed: 2026-11-01T09:26:07.609Z
• Last seen in registry: 2026-11-01T09:26:07.825Z
• Repository: https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server

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