internet-archive-mcp · a live run, 31 October 2026
One subject, put to eight Internet Archive services through one MCP server. Every image, quote and number below came back from a live tool call, and each panel shows the call that produced it.
The runThis page came from one live run on 31 October 2026, made by hand before the site's capture script existed. The question typed for it wasn't kept, so none is shown here. Each section names the tools that made it, and every call it shows is in the receipts at the end. The other stories were captured with scripts/site/capture.py and show their questions and every call in order.
Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, in Scribner, Armstrong & Co.'s New York edition of 1874, "with eighty full page illustrations". The server turned its pages as images the assistant can look at, which is how the frontispiece above was found: page 9 is blank, page 10 is the plate.
One search reads the OCR text of every scanned book on archive.org. Before 1900 people wrote about a trip to the moon; in the three years after Apollo 11 they wrote Tranquility Base.
A whole chapter called A Trip to the Moon. Three scans turned up, of the 1855 and 1858 printings, from libraries in California, Michigan and at Duke.
"How was he to invent anything to beat this 900-feet Columbiad?"
The transcript as printed: "Houston. Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." Six scans of this book were among the first eight results.
"…a westward view looking toward what would become Tranquility Base in Mare Tranquillitatis." See section 04.
The server asks Open Library, live, whether each book can be read now and how. It never borrows on anyone's behalf: it gives the link, and the person borrows in their own browser.
Anyone can read or download it, with no loan. Open Library edition OL7052456M.
Borrowable now as a 1-hour loan. No 14-day loan free, no waitlist. Open Library edition OL5046031M.
made with search_inside · get_page_image · IIIF image service
AS11-37-5437 · Apollo 11This westward-looking low-oblique view is centered approximately on Tranquility Base, which is located at the terminator.The dark shape at lower left is the shadow of the lunar module's thruster nozzle, the caption adds.
A NASA video, on the Archive since 2022: scientists open a core sample collected on the Moon by Apollo 17 in 1972. Its subtitle file, uploaded by NASA and in the public domain, reads as timed text.
"That core was collected by Gene Cernan, as I was working on the edge of a crater nearby."
"In fact, Apollo never ended for lunar scientists."
"We can actually detect the water that is in some of these ancient lunar rocks."
"Everything we're learning about the Moon relates to the very early history of the solar system."
Every single day since 1 January 2020 (highlighted). One summary call, no paging.
| Year | Days |
|---|---|
| 1996 | 1 |
| 1997 | 2 |
| 1998 | 2 |
| 1999 | 13 |
| 2000 | 22 |
| 2001 | 110 |
| 2002 | 86 |
| 2003 | 18 |
| 2004 | 167 |
| 2005 | 310 |
| 2006 | 156 |
| 2007 | 135 |
| 2008 | 242 |
| 2009 | 151 |
| 2010 | 279 |
| 2011 | 355 |
| 2012 | 351 |
| 2013 | 323 |
| 2014 | 361 |
| 2015 | 340 |
| 2016 | 356 |
| 2017 | 364 |
| 2018 | 364 |
| 2019 | 362 |
| 2020 | 366 |
| 2021 | 365 |
| 2022 | 365 |
| 2023 | 365 |
| 2024 | 366 |
| 2025 | 365 |
| 2026 | 305 |
This is a substitute for the usual NASA Home Page. In an effort to help the millions trying to get information on Mars Pathfinder, we've put this list of reflector sites on our top-level page.
| Site | Hits/Day |
|---|---|
| Silicon Graphics, Inc. | 20,000,000 |
| Digital Equipment Corp. | 15,000,000 |
| CompuServe | 10,000,000 |
| SUN Microsystems, Inc. | 6,000,000 |
| NASA, JPL | 5,000,000 |
The oldest capture of nasa.gov, taken at 23:58 on New Year's Eve 1996, isn't the home page. It's a stand-in, put up so the crowds coming for Mars Pathfinder could find a mirror, rated by how many hits a day each could take.
In write mode the same server can ask the Wayback Machine to save a page now, after you've seen a preview and said yes. That was tested live on 1 November.
1–14 April 2024 · 16 programs on 7 channels · 11 of them on 8 April, eclipse day
| Day | Programs |
|---|---|
| 5 Apr | 1 |
| 7 Apr | 2 |
| 8 Apr | 11 |
| 9 Apr | 1 |
| 14 Apr | 1 |
made with search_summary · item_views · recent_changes
Items by media type, from one summary call
| Media type | Items |
|---|---|
| image | 188,766 |
| movies | 13,781 |
| audio | 5,591 |
| texts | 538 |
| collection | 105 |
| software | 94 |
| data | 24 |
21 August to 19 September 2026, robots excluded, as the Views API reports them
| Day | Views |
|---|---|
| 21 Aug | 4,083 |
| 22 Aug | 4,151 |
| 23 Aug | 4,415 |
| 24 Aug | 4,042 |
| 25 Aug | 4,959 |
| 26 Aug | 5,246 |
| 27 Aug | 22,652 |
| 28 Aug | 29,874 |
| 29 Aug | 74,470 |
| 30 Aug | 11,165 |
| 31 Aug | 12,173 |
| 1 Sep | 10,411 |
| 2 Sep | 12,731 |
| 3 Sep | 11,729 |
| 4 Sep | 11,021 |
| 5 Sep | 10,888 |
| 6 Sep | 9,868 |
| 7 Sep | 10,670 |
| 8 Sep | 7,156 |
| 9 Sep | 4,368 |
| 10 Sep | 3,862 |
| 11 Sep | 4,432 |
| 12 Sep | 4,480 |
| 13 Sep | 3,631 |
| 14 Sep | 5,048 |
| 15 Sep | 7,095 |
| 16 Sep | 12,776 |
| 17 Sep | 9,371 |
| 18 Sep | 10,641 |
| 19 Sep | 9,645 |
The 19 calls this page shows, section by section. This run was noted by hand, before the capture script existed, so they're listed in the order of the page, not the order they were made, and there's no replay to play. Open one to see which section it made.
Made with internet-archive-mcp, an unofficial MCP server for the Internet Archive, not affiliated with it. 39 read tools, one shared rate limit of 3 requests a second, every answer kept small.
Sources: Verne, 1874 · Verne, 1900 · Schele de Vere, 1855 · Wilford, 1969 · NASA report, 1971 · NASA video, 2022 · nasa.gov, 1996 · TV News Archive · NASA collection
Images are scans from archive.org: the 1874 edition is in the public domain and the 1971 report is a US government work. Search results and counts change as the Archive grows; these are from the run on 31 October 2026 (US time; 1 November UTC).
