Tools and APIs#

Here’s a list of the Internet Archive APIs, tools, and services.

Name	Description	Available as	Interactive documentation	Tutorials
Internet Archive Metadata	Metadata is used for locating and viewing information.	XML	N/A
Command-Line Interface	The Command-Line Tool (CLI) is for interacting with various archive.org services from the command-line.	Binary program	N/A	Quick start with the ia command line tool
The Internet Archive Python Library	This is a Python interface for interacting with various archive.org services.	Python library	N/A	Find the unique identifier of an item in a collection, Read the metadata of an item, Create an item
S3-like API	This API is for creating items, uploading files, and managing metadata on an Amazon S3-like server.	Python library, REST API, SOAP API
Item Metadata API	This API is for fetching the entire metadata of an item in a single transaction.	PHP library, REST API
Item Metadata API: Read	This API is for fetching metadata.	PHP library, REST API
Item Metadata API: Write	This API is for updating metadata.	PHP library, REST API
Item Metadata API: Record details	This API is for fetching number of fields for an item.	PHP library, REST API
Item Metadata API: Advanced Topics & Extensions	This API is for updating item metadata through JSON patches.	JSON	N/A
Changes API	This API is for fetching identifiers that have changed within a particular time period.	REST API
Views data service api	This API is for fetching the view data of items and collections.	REST API
Internet Archive RESTful microservices	These microservices are stateless, representational programming interfaces that accept and return JSON payloads.		N/A	N/A
Tasks API	This API is for fetching information about running, pending, and completed tasks.
Relationships API	This API is for creating relationships between items on the Internet Archive.
Reviews API	This API is for storing reviews of items. Registered users can review items.
OCR module			N/A
PDF generation module			N/A
Wayback machine APIs	These APIs are for determining if a URL is stored on the Wayback Machine and for querying, filtering and analysis of snapshot data.	REST API	Wayback API reference and Wayback API visualization	See whether a website exists in the archives, Compare two versions of a website
Book Services
Books API
Works API
Editions API
ISBN API
Authors API
Subjects API
Search API
Search inside API
Partner API
Covers API
Recent Changes API
Editions API