io.github.cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server · v0.4.0 · ai-and-media
io.github.cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 355 ms and exposes 5 tools.
Search the Wayback Machine and IA library (40M+ items), fetch snapshots, item metadata, and text.
Endpoint: https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp (streamable-http)
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| Users (last 30 days) | 0 |
| Handshake | Healthy |
| Auth needed | None |
| Tool count | 5 |
| Latency | 355 ms |
| Last checked (UTC) | 2026-10-16T07:20:34.386Z |
| Checked (UTC) | Status | Latency | Error |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16T07:20:34.386Z | Healthy | 355 | |
| 2026-10-15T03:25:39.570Z | Healthy | 2765 |
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 has no answer (one result). Mode "history" returns the full capture list via the CDX API — f |
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 archived page as readable plain text (HTML stripped) and the replay URL of the capture Wayback served, for browser access. Use |
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 via page/rows. Return |
ia_get_item | Retrieve metadata and the file manifest for an Internet Archive item by identifier. Returns title, creator, description, subjects, collections, license, language, the total file count, and a page of files, each with its format, size, and direct download URL. Pages hold up to max_files files (default |
ia_get_text | Retrieve the readable text content of a text item (OCR DjVuTXT or plain-text file) from the Internet Archive, with length-aware truncation and a continuation pointer for pagination. Suited for public-domain books, documents, scanned periodicals, and transcripts. Use max_chars and char_offset to page |