Internet Archive MCP server
online · 100% uptimeSearch the Wayback Machine and IA library (40M+ items), fetch snapshots, item metadata, and text.
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How Internet Archive compares
Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 93/100
- higher than 95% of 3,470 Web search servers
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%
- Response time
- 544 ms
- faster than 27% of 2,238 Web search servers
- GitHub stars
- 4
- more than 75% of 1,786 Web search servers
- Downloads a week
- 1,094
- more than 95% of 827 Web search servers with a package
Release history: 8 versions in the registry since 2026-08-21, latest 2026-10-28, typically one every 5 days.
Install Internet Archive in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http internet-archive-mcp-server https://internet-archive.caseyjhand.com/mcp
What the publisher says
From the Internet Archive repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
@cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server Search the Wayback Machine and IA library (40M+ items), fetch archived snapshots, retrieve item metadata and full text via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 5 Tools • 1 Resource
Overview
The Wayback Machine and Internet Archive library (40M+ items). Find and fetch archived snapshots of any URL, search the library by keyword and metadata, and retrieve item metadata, file manifests, and OCR text from any MCP client. Runs as a stdio process or a local Streamable HTTP server.
Tools
Resources
All resource data is also reachable via iagetitem.
Capability reference
iafindsnapshots tool
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Internet Archive: common questions
- Is Internet Archive MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (93/100). Read the Internet Archive safety report
- How do I install Internet Archive?
- It runs remotely at internet-archive.caseyjhand.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Internet Archive need an API key?
- No secret keys are declared. It reads 7 settings from the environment.
- Is Internet Archive maintained?
- The last commit was 22 days ago (2026-10-12). The latest release is v0.5.0.
- Is Internet Archive up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- What can I use instead of Internet Archive?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Open Library MCP server, Zotero MCP server and Calibre MCP server. Compare all Internet Archive alternatives.
- How does Internet Archive compare with other Web search MCP servers?
- safety score 93/100 (higher than 95% of 3,470 Web search servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%); response time 544 ms (faster than 27% of 2,238 Web search servers). Full comparison.
Alternatives to Internet Archive
Same job from other publishers: the closest match first, then the best rated.
- Open LibrarySearch books and authors on the Internet Archive's Open Librarynot reviewedEstablishedA
- Zotero MCPSearch your Zotero library, retrieve item metadata, and read full text from AI assistants.not reviewedEstablishedB
- CalibreCalibre ebook library server: search, read content, curate metadata, semantic search, gated writes.not reviewedGrowingA
Zotero MCPSearch, read, annotate, and add to your Zotero research library, local or web.not reviewedWidely usedB- ArxivSearch arXiv papers, download full text, semantic search, citation graphs, and alerts via MCP.not reviewedWidely usedA
