Internet Archive

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free access to millions of books, movies, software, music, and archived web pages. It provides services such as the Wayback Machine, Open Library, and various APIs for searching and retrieving digital content, supporting researchers, historians, and the general public.

Internet Archive is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Digital Library, Non-Profit, Archival, Open Access, and Research.

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4.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Digital Library Non-ProfitArchivalOpen Access Research

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 4.9/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 7.1 — up to +18.6 composite points

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Internet Archive API

Internet Archive provides access to digital library resources via its website.

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Internet Archive Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Source (apis.yml)

aid: internet-archive
name: Internet Archive
description: Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free access to millions of books, movies, software,
  music, and archived web pages. It provides services such as the Wayback Machine, Open Library, and various APIs for searching
  and retrieving digital content, supporting researchers, historians, and the general public.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/internet-archive/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:tag-qc
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-14 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-14'
modified: '2026-10-14'
tags:
- Digital Library
- Non-Profit
- Archival
- Open Access
- Research
tags_raw:
- Digital Library
- Nonprofit
- Archival
- Open Access
- Research
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/internet-archive-hosts.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/internet-archive-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/internet-archive-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/internet-archive-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://archive.org
apis:
- name: Internet Archive API
  description: Internet Archive provides access to digital library resources via its website.
  humanURL: https://archive.org
  baseURL: null
  properties: []
  x-coverage:
    state: unreadable
    reason: js-rendered-docs
    detail: The homepage returns a JavaScript shell with no machine‑readable API specification.
    evidence:
    - url: https://archive.org
      status: 200
    checked: '2026-10-14'
  aid: internet-archive:internet-archive-api
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-14'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Internet Archive API — frequently asked questions

Does Internet Archive have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Internet Archive, including Internet Archive API.

Is the Internet Archive API ready for AI agents?

Internet Archive has a Kin Score of 4.9 out of 100 (minimal) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.0 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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