Internet Archive API

Provides programmatic access to the Internet Archive's digital collections, including books, audio, video, software, and web pages. Supports Solr-based search with faceting and pagination, item metadata retrieval, and direct file downloads.

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Slug: internet-archive
Key: archive.org:internet-archive-api
Base URL: https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php
Auth: none
Endpoints: 5
Category: culture
Reachable: yes
CORS: unknown
Tier: verified
Last checked: 2026-03-14 22:15:23.833914

Links

Homepage: https://archive.org/help/search.php
API Base: https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php
SDKs:

Topics

DATABASE, KNOWLEDGE

Endpoints (5)

Path Summary Response Auth
advancedsearch.php Advanced Search API text/html none
download/{identifier}/{filename} Download file application/zip none
download/{identifier}/{file} Download File ? —
metadata/{identifier} Get Item Metadata application/json none
services/search/v1/scrape Scrape API ? —