Internet Archive (Archive.org)
APIs for searching and retrieving items, metadata and the Wayback Machine snapshots from the Internet Archive.
Internet Archive (Archive.org) is listed in Open Data.
Auth No auth Pricing Free URL https://archive.org/ Docs https://archive.org/developers/index-apis.html
Key metrics
Fair use Rate limit Free and keyless for most read APIs; no hard published rate limit (fair use; heavy scraping is throttled).
Gotchas
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Labels
- No auth
No auth
Callable with no API key or login — lowest-friction to integrate.
archive wayback media metadata preservation