internet-archive-mcpunofficial

stories · live runs, replayed

Questions put to the Archive

Each story is a live run of the server against archive.org: what was asked, the calls, what came back and what it adds up to. Six were captured call by call, so you can press Play and watch the calls arrive; the Moon story, the first, was made by hand and shows each panel's calls.

Title page: From the Earth to the Moon, by Jules Verne, New York, 1874.
Eight services · one subject

To the Moon, by way of the Archive

An 1874 Verne, full-text search across books, an Apollo 11 photograph, NASA subtitles, thirty years of nasa.gov and the 2024 eclipse on TV.

  • analysis
  • changes
  • iiif
  • items
  • openlibrary
  • views
  • wayback

11 tools: get_page_image, search_full_text, search_inside, book_availability, get_subtitles, wayback_history_summary, wayback_fetch, tvnews_program_counts, search_summary, item_views, recent_changes

Newspaper column headed: Red Cross Tea Room to close during influenza.
Newspapers · full-text search

Headlines of 1918

273 of 646 issues mention influenza; the week of 21 Oct 1918 peaks at 79%.

  • iiif
  • items

5 tools: search_full_text, search_items_deep, get_item, search_inside, get_page_image

Web history · Wayback Machine

The web that vanished

2,573 days of captures, a diff of the April 2009 announcement, and the last day: 26 October 2009.

  • analysis
  • wayback

4 tools: wayback_history_summary, wayback_fetch, wayback_cdx, wayback_compare

A worn black disc photographed from above, its centre stamped with the Berliner Gramophone name and the title of the recitation.
Sound · subtitles · full text

Sounds of the past

203 of 265 printed words match the machine's transcript of an 1898 recitation.

  • iiif
  • items

6 tools: search_items, get_item, get_subtitles, get_page_image, search_inside, get_full_text

Engraved frontispiece of the 1831 Frankenstein: in a vaulted room lit through a tall leaded window, the naked creature half sits up on the floor among a skull, bones and an open book, while a cloaked man flees through the doorway. Below, the word FRANKENSTEIN and a caption engraved in script.
Books · Open Library · IIIF

Frankenstein, from shelf to scan

One ISBN, 2,187 editions, and the 1831 scan anyone can read, word box by word box.

  • iiif
  • items
  • openlibrary
  • views

14 tools: openlibrary_edition, openlibrary_cover_url, book_availability, openlibrary_work, openlibrary_author, openlibrary_search, openlibrary_subject, openlibrary_scan, search_items, iiif_manifest, get_page_image, iiif_image_url, get_hocr, item_views

TV news · captions · Wayback

Artemis I, on the news

345 TV programs on 21 channels, 55 on the busiest day, and the launch call in the captions.

  • analysis
  • tvnews
  • wayback

4 tools: tvnews_program_counts, tvnews_search, tvnews_captions, wayback_available

A grey cartoon frame: a bare, broken tree with wisps of smoke, and on the ground beside it a turtle drawn into its shell.
Films · analysis · subtitles

A film library, by the numbers

10,468 items, nearly all films, summed up in two requests; at least 211.1 M downloads, and Duck and Cover line by line.

  • analysis
  • iiif
  • items
  • views

9 tools: account_info, search_summary, list_collection, item_views, get_item, get_file_links, get_subtitles, get_page_image, get_reviews

coverage

34 of the 39 read tools, at work

Every read tool, by service, and the stories that call it

analysis

changes

iiif

items

openlibrary

tvnews

views

wayback

The stories run without archive.org keys, so tools that need them can't appear, and write tools are never run for the site. Each tool missing from the stories says why.