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Internet Archive Search

Internet Archive Search MCP Connector for Claude

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Search 40M+ books, videos, audio, software across the Internet Archive.

12 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner
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Connect Internet Archive Search to any AI agent and perform advanced searches across the world's largest digital library — 40M+ items including books, films, music, software, and images.

What you can do

  • Universal Search — Complex queries with AND, OR, NOT, wildcards, field-specific searches
  • Collection Browsing — Explore curated collections (Prelinger, Gutenberg, NASA, TV News)
  • Media Type Filtering — Search by format: texts, movies, audio, software, images
  • Creator/Author Search — Find all works by a specific person or organization
  • Date Range Search — Discover content from specific decades or year ranges
  • Subject Search — Find items by curated topic keywords
  • Top Downloads — See what's most popular across the archive
  • Language Search — Find content in specific languages
  • Publisher Search — Find all content from specific publishers
  • Recent Items — Discover newly uploaded content
  • Faceted Search — Analyze search results by category distributions
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12 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

faceted_search

The facets parameter uses JSON faceting syntax (e.g., "mediatype:{type:terms,field:mediatype}"). Use this to understand the composition of search results by categories like media type, collection, or creator. Search with faceted results for category analysis

search_by_collection

Use this to explore themed collections. Search items within a specific Internet Archive collection

search_by_creator

Creator names should match item metadata. Examples: "George Orwell", "NASA", "Charlie Chaplin", "Project Gutenberg". Use this to find the complete works of an author or content from an organization. Search for all items by a specific creator or author

search_by_date_range

Combines a text query with year filtering. Example: query="science fiction", startYear="1950", endYear="1959" finds 1950s sci-fi. Use this for historical content discovery. Search for items within a specific year range

search_fulltext

Returns identifier, title, and description. Use this when you need to find items containing specific terms in their descriptions. Limited to 25 results by default. Full-text search across item descriptions and metadata

search_by_language

Examples: "English", "French", "Spanish", "Portuguese", "German". Use this to find content in a specific language. Search for items in a specific language

search_by_mediatype

Use this to filter by format type. Search for items of a specific media type

search_by_publisher

Examples: "Penguin Books", "Marvel Comics", "National Geographic". Use this to find all content from a specific publisher. Search for items by publisher name

search_recent

Use this to discover new content added to the archive. Useful for staying current with new additions. Get the most recently uploaded items to the Internet Archive

search_by_subject

Subjects are curated topics assigned to items. Examples: "world war 2", "science fiction", "civil rights", "jazz music". Use this to find content about specific topics across all collections. Search for items by subject or topic

search

Supports AND, OR, NOT, wildcards (*), and field searches. Use this for broad discovery. Optional: fields (e.g., "identifier,title,mediatype"), rows (1-100), page for pagination, and sort (e.g., "date desc"). Universal search across 40M+ items in the Internet Archive

search_top_downloads

Optional mediatype filter narrows to a specific format (texts, movies, audio, software). Use this to find popular content. Get the most downloaded items from the Internet Archive

See how to talk to your AI agent using Internet Archive Search.

Search for public domain films from the 1940s.

Found 12,847 films from the 1940s in Prelinger Archives and community collections, including WWII propaganda, educational shorts, and home movies.

Show me the most downloaded items.

Top downloads include: Big Buck Bunny (movie), various Project Gutenberg ebooks, NASA Apollo mission photos, and classic software from the softwarelibrary collection.

Search for NASA images.

Found 185,000+ NASA items including Apollo mission photographs, Hubble Space Telescope images, satellite imagery, and Space Shuttle documentation.

The IA search uses Solr-like syntax: AND, OR, NOT for boolean logic, wildcards (*), phrase matching ("..."), and field-specific searches like creator:"Name", subject:"Topic", collection:"name". Combine multiple criteria for precise results.

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