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Searches and retrieves items from the Internet Archive (archive.org) - 44M+ books, videos, audio, software, and web archives. Free, no API key required.

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from $3.00 / 1,000 results

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5.0

(11)

Developer

Crawler Gang

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You can access the Internet Archive Search Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "mode": "search",
10    "query": "public domain books",
11    "mediaType": "texts",
12    "sortBy": "-downloads",
13    "identifiers": [],
14    "maxItems": 50,
15}
16
17# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
18run = client.actor("crawlergang/internet-archive-search-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
19
20# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
21print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
22for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
23    print(item)
24
25# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Internet Archive Search Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Internet Archive Search Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Internet Archive Search Scraper API in JavaScript

Internet Archive Search Scraper API through CLI

Internet Archive Search Scraper OpenAPI definition

Internet Archive Search Scraper API

Internet Archive Search Scraper

crawlerbros/internet-archive-search-scraper

Searches and retrieves items from the Internet Archive (archive.org) - 44M+ books, videos, audio, software, and web archives. Free, no API key required.

Crawler Bros

Internet Archive Items Scraper - archive.org Search by Query

gio21/archive-org-items-scraper

Search Internet Archive (archive.org) items: books, movies, audio, software, images, web archives, data. Returns title, creator, date, description, downloads, identifier, URLs. Free, no key. For research, content discovery, digital preservation.

Gio

Internet Archive Scraper

truenorth/internet-archive-scraper

Search archive.org and export books, audio, video, software, images, metadata, and file lists as structured JSON or CSV.

TrueNorth

Internet Archive Scraper

fortuitous_pirate/internet-archive-scraper

Search the Internet Archive's 35+ million items: books, movies, audio, software, and web pages. Filter by media type, subject, creator, language, or date range. Free API.

Fortuitous Pirate

Internet Archive Search — Wayback Machine Advanced Query Tool

maged120/archive-org-advanced-search

Search the Internet Archive (archive.org) with full advanced filter support — date range, media type, language, subject, and more. Returns metadata from archived web pages, books, audio, and video.

Maged

Internet Archive Scraper

dami_studio/internet-archive-scraper

Searches the Internet Archive (archive.org) by keyword and returns structured items (title, creator, year, downloads, subjects, item URL); filter by media type and sort by downloads or upload date.

Dami's Studio

5.0

Internet Archive & Wayback Machine Scraper

mangudai/internet-archive-scraper

Search the Internet Archive's 40M+ items, pull full item metadata and file lists, and query the Wayback Machine for URL snapshots. Books, audio, video, software, and archived pages on official archive.org APIs. No API key.

Mangudäi

Internet Archive Metadata Scraper — Bulk archive.org Export

logiover/internet-archive-metadata-scraper

Bulk-export item metadata from the Internet Archive (archive.org) by full-text query, collection, media type, creator, subject and date range. Extract identifier, title, creator, date, downloads, format, subject and more. Millions of items. No API key, no login.

Logiover

Internet Archive Search Scraper

moving_beacon-owner1/internet-archive-search-scraper

Searches the Internet Archive using its advanced search API. Retrieves matching items with pagination, returning requested metadata fields and a link to each item's details page.