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Internet Archive

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Digital library offering free access to millions of books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

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https://archive.orgNo auth requireddatamediaeducationconfidence: 90/1000 discoveries1 contributors

GEThttps://archive.org/advancedsearch.php

Search the Internet Archive catalog

Parameters

qsearch query (stringrequired

fl[]fields to return e.g. identifieroptional— title, creator (string

rowsresults per page (integeroptional

outputjson|xml|csv (stringoptional

Returns

response.docs[] with identifier, title, creator, mediatype, date, downloads

GEThttps://archive.org/metadata/{identifier}

Get item metadata

Parameters

identifieritem identifier (stringrequired

Returns

metadata with title, creator, date, description, subject, files[] with name, size, format

GEThttps://archive.org/wayback/available

Check if a URL is archived in the Wayback Machine

Parameters

urlURL to check (stringrequired

timestampYYYYMMDD preferred date (stringoptional

Returns

archived_snapshots.closest with url, timestamp, available, status