# Internet Archive Search — Books, Video, Audio & Software (`haktelaren/internet-archive-scraper`) Actor

Search the Internet Archive catalog through its public JSON API. No browser and no API key. Returns identifier, title, creator, year, downloads, media type, subjects, formats, and the details URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/haktelaren/internet-archive-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Celal Tokmak](https://apify.com/haktelaren) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Education, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 catalog items

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Internet Archive Search — Books, Video, Audio & Software

Search the public Internet Archive catalog and save structured items. The actor calls `https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php` and reads JSON. It does not open a browser, log in, or download files.

### Why this actor

- Public JSON API — no API key, no login, no browser.
- Filter by media type (`texts`, `movies`, `audio`, `software`, `image`, `data`) and year range.
- Sort by downloads, item date, date added, or relevance.
- Output is one catalog record per dataset item: identifier, title, creator, year, downloads, formats, subjects, and the details URL.

### Input

```json
{
  "search_queries": ["nasa apollo"],
  "mediatype": "texts",
  "year_from": 1960,
  "year_to": 1975,
  "sort_by": "downloads",
  "max_items": 50
}
```

`search_queries` also accepts a raw Archive.org query such as `title:(apollo) AND mediatype:texts`.

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `search_queries` | `Array<String>` | `["nasa apollo"]` | Plain words or an Archive.org Lucene query. |
| `mediatype` | `String` | `texts` | `all`, `texts`, `movies`, `audio`, `software`, `image`, `data`. |
| `year_from` / `year_to` | `Integer` | — | Optional inclusive year range. |
| `sort_by` | `String` | `downloads` | `downloads`, `date`, `added`, `relevance`. |
| `max_items` | `Integer` | `50` | How many catalog items to save (1–1000). |

### Output

Each item has `identifier`, `title`, `creator`, `year`, `date`, `downloads`, `mediatype`, `language`, `description`, `subjects`, `formats`, `collections`, `url`, `query`, and `scraped_at`.

`url` points at `https://archive.org/details/{identifier}`. Favorite-list collections (`fav-*`) are dropped because a popular item can carry thousands of them.

```json
{
  "identifier": "nasa_techdoc_20000088626",
  "title": "Challenge To Apollo: The Soviet Union and The Space Race, 1945-1974",
  "creator": "Siddiqi, Asif A",
  "year": 2000,
  "downloads": 41992,
  "mediatype": "texts",
  "url": "https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20000088626"
}
```

### Pricing

**$1.50 per 1,000 saved catalog items** (pay-per-event, `$0.0015` per dataset item). Actor start is `$0.00005`. Compute is extra and typically a few cents because this actor uses HTTP JSON only.

### Store

https://apify.com/haktelaren/internet-archive-scraper

# Actor input Schema

## `search_queries` (type: `array`):

Plain words or an Archive.org query, for example 'nasa apollo' or 'title:(apollo) AND mediatype:texts'.

## `mediatype` (type: `string`):

Limit results to one Archive.org media type. Ignored when the query already contains mediatype:.

## `year_from` (type: `integer`):

Optional start year, inclusive.

## `year_to` (type: `integer`):

Optional end year, inclusive.

## `sort_by` (type: `string`):

Order catalog results by downloads, item date, date added, or relevance.

## `max_items` (type: `integer`):

How many catalog items to save.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "search_queries": [
    "nasa apollo"
  ],
  "mediatype": "texts",
  "sort_by": "downloads",
  "max_items": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("haktelaren/internet-archive-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("haktelaren/internet-archive-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call haktelaren/internet-archive-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,haktelaren/internet-archive-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/OuiFWdfsThN73veZg/builds/zBgSQAcA2yXJ97qEi/openapi.json