Search the Wayback Machine and IA library (40M+ items), fetch snapshots, item metadata, and text.
If you already use Internet, the internet mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. Search the Wayback Machine and IA library (40M+ items), fetch snapshots, item metadata, and text.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
ia_find_snapshots — Find Wayback Machine snapshots of a URL. Mode closest returns the nearest capture to a given timestamp. Mode history returns the full capture listia_get_snapshot — Fetch the archived content of a URL at a specific Wayback timestamp. Strips HTML to readable text and returns the canonical replay URLia_search_items — Search the IA library (40M+ items). Filter by media type, collection, creator, date range, and language. Sort by relevance, date, or downloadsia_get_item — Retrieve full metadata and the file manifest for an Archive item by identifier — title, creator, description, subjects, collections, license, andia_get_text — Retrieve readable OCR text (DjVuTXT or plain-text) from a text item. Length-aware truncation with continuation pointer (char_offset) for pagingPrerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverInstallation — The Installation tool exposed by this serverConfiguration is passed through the environment: MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE, MCP_LOG_LEVEL. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Among the file and storage access options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Internet's toolset — ia_find_snapshots, ia_get_snapshot, ia_search_items and 4 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by cyanheads; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| ia_find_snapshots | Find Wayback Machine snapshots of a URL. Mode closest returns the nearest capture to a given timestamp. Mode history returns the full capture list via CDX with date range, status, and MIME filters, collapsed by default t |
| ia_get_snapshot | Fetch the archived content of a URL at a specific Wayback timestamp. Strips HTML to readable text and returns the canonical replay URL. |
| ia_search_items | Search the IA library (40M+ items). Filter by media type, collection, creator, date range, and language. Sort by relevance, date, or downloads. Returns identifiers, titles, types, and pagination context (total_found, pag |
| ia_get_item | Retrieve full metadata and the file manifest for an Archive item by identifier — title, creator, description, subjects, collections, license, and every file with its format, size, and direct download URL. |
| ia_get_text | Retrieve readable OCR text (DjVuTXT or plain-text) from a text item. Length-aware truncation with continuation pointer (char_offset) for paging through large documents. |
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Installation | The Installation tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"internet-archive-mcp-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "bunx",
"args": ["@cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server@latest"],
"env": {
"MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE": "stdio",
"MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "info"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| MCP_LOG_LEVEL | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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