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internet-archive-mcp-server MCP Server

Search the Wayback Machine and IA library (40M+ items), fetch snapshots, item metadata, and text.

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Published as @cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

15 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

docs(skills): release-and-publish is stale against mcp-ts-core — version reads ahead but content is behind

Description

skills/release-and-publish/SKILL.md in this repo declares metadata.version: "2.9", while the current @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core copy of the same skill (node_modules/@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/skills/release-and-publish/SKILL.md) is at "1.11". Because the local version string reads numerically ahead of the framework's, a version-gated resync treats it as an intentional local override and leaves it untouched — but a content diff shows the local copy is missing real upstream guid

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · closed · 2 comments

bug(ia_get_snapshot): Wayback 404 on exact-timestamp direct path doesn't map to no_snapshot_available contract

When ia_get_snapshot is called with an exact 14-digit timestamp (e.g. "20200601000000"), the handler skips the Availability API and calls fetchContent directly. If the Wayback Machine returns a 404 for that URL/timestamp combination (no capture at that exact timestamp), the raw FetchHttpError propagates without being mapped to the declared no_snapshot_available contract entry. The result: data.reason is null and the error text is the generic fetch failure message, not the actionabl

Read the thread · 2026-06-07 · closed · 2 comments

ux(ia_search_items): empty-result notice lives only in structuredContent, not in content[]

ia_search_items uses ctx.enrich.notice() to surface actionable guidance when the query returns zero results. The notice is correctly placed in structuredContent.notice — visible to Claude Code and API clients reading structured output — but the format() function only renders the result-count line, leaving content[] with no guidance text.

Clients that only consume content[] (Claude Desktop, stdio integrations) see nothing helpful when a search returns zero results.

Repro

Call `i

Read the thread · 2026-06-07 · closed · 2 comments

ux(ia_get_snapshot): resolved_status is hardcoded '200' for exact-timestamp direct path

Server version

0.1.1

mcp-ts-core version

^0.9.21

Description

In ia-get-snapshot.tool.ts, when the caller passes an exact 14-digit timestamp, ia_get_snapshot builds the replay URL directly and skips the Availability API check. The resolved_status field is hardcoded as '200' in this path:

if (isExactTimestamp) {
  snapshotUrl = svc.buildReplayUrl(input.timestamp.trim(), input.url);
  resolvedTimestamp = input.timestamp.trim();
  resolvedStatus = '200'; // status wil

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/3) · 2026-06-07 · closed · 2 comments

### bug(ia_get_item): dark/restricted items return empty metadata instead of an error

### Server version

0.1.1

### mcp-ts-core version

^0.9.21

### Runtime

Bun / Node.js

### Transport

HTTP (Streamable HTTP)

### Description

The Internet Archive Metadata API returns `HTTP 200` with a non-empty response body for dark (restricted/removed) items, but the body contains only server routing fields (`created`, `d1`, `d2`, `dir`, `is_dark`, etc.) — no `metadata` key and no `files` array.

The current check in `archive-metadata-service.ts` only throws `item_not_found` when the respo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/2) · 2026-06-07 · closed · 2 comments

### Most recent

### feat(config): default MCP_SESSION_MODE to stateless across env, Docker, and src

`Dockerfile` sets `ENV MCP_SESSION_MODE="stateless"`, but `.env.example` carries a commented `# MCP_SESSION_MODE=stateful`, whose comment documents the value set as `stateful | stateless (default: stateful)`. The container and the same code run via `bunx`, `npm start`, or from source therefore resolve to different session modes — stateless in Docker, stateful everywhere else, since the framework schema defaults to `auto` and `auto` resolves to `stateful`.

Related: cyanheads/mcp-ts-core#376

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/16) · 2026-08-22 · open · 0 comments

### bug(ia_find_snapshots): missing timestamp in closest mode surfaces as no_snapshot_available instead of a validation error

### Server version

0.1.3 working tree (pending 0.1.4; @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core adoption 0.10.6 → 0.12.3)

### mcp-ts-core version

^0.12.3

### Runtime

Node

### Runtime version

v26.5.0 (Bun 1.4.0 as package manager)

### Transport

http (handler-level — applies to stdio too)

### Description

`ia_find_snapshots` with `mode: "closest"` and no `timestamp` throws the declared `no_snapshot_available` contract entry, whose `when` clause is "No capture exists near the requested timestamp for this UR

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/11) · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

### feat(ia_get_item): cap or paginate the file manifest — large items bloat both response surfaces

### Use case

`ia_get_item` returns the complete file manifest with no cap, and `format()` renders every file into `content[]`. Routine multi-file items make this heavy: a single LibriVox audiobook lookup — `adventures_holmes` (126 files) — produces ~24 KB of `content[]` text plus ~30 KB of `structuredContent` (~53 KB / ~14K tokens) for one call; `LibrivoxM4bCollectionAudiobooksMain` has 285 files. The manifest dominates the response and is duplicated across both surfaces, even though a caller u

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/10) · 2026-06-30 · open · 0 comments

### docs(ia_get_item): example identifier pg1342 is now a dark item — advertised resource example errors

### Description

`pg1342` ("Pride and Prejudice") is the canonical example identifier across the metadata surface: the descriptions of `ia_get_item` and `ia_get_text`, the `ia://item/{identifier}` resource's `params` description, and — functionally — the resource's `list()`, which advertises `ia://item/pg1342` as *"Example: Pride and Prejudice (pg1342)"*.

That item is now **dark**: `https://archive.org/metadata/pg1342` returns routing fields with `is_dark: true` and no metadata or files. So the

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/9) · 2026-06-30 · open · 0 comments

### bug(ia_get_snapshot): stripHtml leaves numeric and most named HTML entities undecoded

### Server version

0.1.3

### mcp-ts-core version

0.10.6

### Runtime

Node

### Runtime version

v26.3.1

### Transport

stdio

### OS

macOS

### Description

`ia_get_snapshot` extracts readable text with `stripHtml()`, which decodes only six HTML entities (`&`, `<`, `>`, `"`, `'`, ` `). Real archived pages are full of numeric entities (` `, `’`) and other named ones (`›`, `—`, `©`), all of which pass through as literal noise in the retur

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/8) · 2026-06-30 · open · 0 comments

### bug(ia_get_text): restricted items surface a raw 401 instead of the declared download_forbidden error

### Server version

0.1.3

### mcp-ts-core version

0.10.6

### Runtime

Node

### Runtime version

v26.3.1

### Transport

stdio

### OS

macOS

### Description

`ia_get_text` declares a `download_forbidden` error contract (code `Forbidden`, recovery hint about login/borrowing), but it is never delivered. For access-restricted items (lending / print-disabled, `access-restricted-item: true`), fetching the text file redirects to a fulfillment host that returns a non-2xx status. `fetchWithTimeout`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/7) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 1 comment

### bug(ia_get_item): array-valued language fails output validation (also ia://item resource)

### Server version

0.1.3

### mcp-ts-core version

0.10.6

### Runtime

Node

### Runtime version

v26.3.1 (runtime-independent — fails in the output-schema validation layer)

### Transport

stdio

### OS

macOS

### Description

`ia_get_item` casts several IA metadata fields to a bare `string`, but the [Internet Archive Metadata API](https://archive.org/developers/md-read.html) returns an **array** for any multi-valued field. When `language` (and likewise `licenseurl`, `title`, `date`, `rights

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server/issues/6) · 2026-06-30 · open · 0 comments

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