Archiveorg MCP server

mcp-archiveorg

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The Internet Archive is a non-profit library that keeps what the world publishes: scanned books, films, recorded music, radio, software, and the pages of the web itself, captured over and over since 1996 in the Wayback Machine. Millions of its books and documents have been run through optical character recognition, so the words inside them can be searched, and the Open Library index beside it describes works, their editions and their subjects.

This server connects a chat client to that library. You can search the full text inside its documents, search its catalogue of items, read one item's record and its files, look up a book by subject, place, period or person, and read the web as it stood on a given day. It needs no API key and no account.

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Install

One-click install

Claude Code

claude mcp add archiveorg -- npx -y mcp-archiveorg

Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any client using the standard config format

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archiveorg": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-archiveorg"]
    }
  }
}

Node 24 or later is required, and no environment variable has to be set.

With Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archiveorg": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "ghcr.io/smeet666/mcp-archiveorg:2.0.2"]
    }
  }
}

-i keeps stdin open, which is where the protocol travels, and -t is left out because a TTY rewrites the stream. The container needs outbound HTTPS to archive.org, web.archive.org and openlibrary.org, and nothing else: no volume, no port, no credential.

Bundle, without npm

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.