Internet Archive APIunofficial
Search Internet Archive items and inspect Wayback Machine capture summaries without an account.
- archive.org
all live 2 operations, checked by the installs that call them.
Seeded by the maintainers.
Try it
Set up API Anything for your agents:
npx -y api-anything setupThen ask your agent, which finds this site by itself, or call it from a shell:
api-anything pull archive
api-anything call archive searchItems q=nasaOperations
| Operation | Method | Login | Writes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
searchItems(q) -> identifier, title, mediatype, creator, date, downloadsSearch the first page of Internet Archive items. |
GET | no | no | Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown |
waybackSummary(url) -> first, last, yearsGet the first and last capture timestamps and monthly capture counts by year for a URL. |
GET | no | no | Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown |
Notes
No account is needed. Search returns the first page, up to 100 items; some metadata fields are absent on individual items. Search expressions follow the Internet Archive's search syntax.
For Wayback summaries, first and last are timestamps in YYYYMMDDhhmmss form. Each entry in years is an array of twelve monthly capture counts, January first; sum an array for the year's total. Counts and search results can change.
About these operations
Each operation is a request learned from Internet Archive's own web pages: API Anything replays it over plain HTTP and falls back to a browser when it must. Read them as JSON.