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Internet Archive

Books, audio, web archives

Official site consultedDaily life, culture and media

Last verified: 1 October 2026

Internet Archive developer portal: Python library, the ia command line, a metadata API, an S3-like API and OCR services. Some operations require credentials.

Services
  • internetarchive Python library
  • ia command-line tool
  • Item Metadata API
  • S3-like ias3 API
  • OCR service (Tesseract, hOCR)
  • Tasks and Changes Discovery APIs
Access requirements

Internet Archive credentials required for some operations.

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