# Internet Archive Search Scraper (`searchapi/internet-archive-search-scraper`) Actor

Searches public Internet Archive items with filters, sorting, and API pagination.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/searchapi/internet-archive-search-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Search API](https://apify.com/searchapi) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.99 / 1,000 search results

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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 Scraper

Search public [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/) items through its Advanced Search API. The Actor accepts the values users normally enter or select—query, media type, collection, creator, language, year range, and sort—then returns stable, typed item records. No API key or login is required.

### Input

`query` accepts words or Internet Archive Advanced Search syntax. Optional filters are combined with that query and confirmed against the parameters echoed by the API response. `maxItems` is the hard global record limit; `rowsPerPage` and `maxPages` bound native API pagination.

```json
{
  "query": "climate change",
  "mediaTypes": ["texts"],
  "languages": ["English"],
  "yearFrom": 2020,
  "yearTo": 2026,
  "sortBy": "downloads",
  "sortDirection": "desc",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "maxPages": 2,
  "rowsPerPage": 10,
  "useApifyProxy": false
}
```

Proxy settings support direct access, Apify Proxy groups/country selection, or user-provided HTTP(S) proxy URLs. Proxy credentials are never logged.

### Output

Each dataset record represents one Archive item and can include:

- stable `id` and native `identifier`;
- `title`, `description`, creators, publisher, media type, collections, languages, subjects, and formats;
- normalized item/public dates, year, and numeric download count;
- canonical item and metadata URLs;
- query, sort, page, and contiguous position context;
- source and scrape timestamp.

Optional values absent from the source are omitted. Raw API responses, transport internals, proxy credentials, cookies, and error bodies are never stored.

### Reliability and limits

The Actor validates HTTP status and JSON content type before parsing, caps response size, rejects malformed or unexpected payloads, and verifies the API-echoed query, rows, start offset, and sort. Temporary network, rate-limit, and server failures use bounded progressive backoff. Results are deduplicated by Internet Archive identifier and written only after all selected pages pass validation.

Internet Archive controls public index availability and ranking. `relevance` uses the service's native default ordering; sort direction applies to explicit fields. This Actor does not access private items or bypass access controls.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Words or Internet Archive Advanced Search syntax to search.

## `mediaTypes` (type: `array`):

Optional Internet Archive media-type filters.

## `collections` (type: `array`):

Optional exact Internet Archive collection identifiers.

## `creators` (type: `array`):

Optional exact creator names.

## `languages` (type: `array`):

Optional exact language names or codes.

## `yearFrom` (type: `integer`):

Optional inclusive earliest item year.

## `yearTo` (type: `integer`):

Optional inclusive latest item year.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Native Internet Archive result ordering.

## `sortDirection` (type: `string`):

Direction for explicit sort fields; relevance uses the native order.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard global result limit.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum native API pages to request.

## `rowsPerPage` (type: `integer`):

Number of candidates requested per native API page.

## `maxRequestRetries` (type: `integer`):

Retries for temporary network, rate-limit, and server failures.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Per-request timeout.

## `useApifyProxy` (type: `boolean`):

Route requests through an authorized Apify Proxy configuration.

## `proxyGroups` (type: `array`):

Optional Apify Proxy groups.

## `proxyCountryCode` (type: `string`):

Optional two-letter proxy country code.

## `proxyUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional HTTP(S) proxy URLs. Credentials are never logged.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "climate change",
  "sortBy": "relevance",
  "sortDirection": "desc",
  "maxItems": 25,
  "maxPages": 5,
  "rowsPerPage": 50,
  "maxRequestRetries": 3,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
  "useApifyProxy": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

## `summary` (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("searchapi/internet-archive-search-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("searchapi/internet-archive-search-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 searchapi/internet-archive-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,searchapi/internet-archive-search-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/YbCFek0ILdRqE2YYm/builds/iHqrH09HKHP5S2HFM/openapi.json