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Wayback Machine MCP Server

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Wayback Machine runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 674 installs a week from npm. Last commit 31 May 2026.

MCP server and CLI tool for interacting with the Wayback Machine without API keys

Installs per day peak 136 · avg 46 · +34% w/w
a month agotoday
674
Installs / week
npm · mcp-wayback-machine
53
Stars
0 open issues
31 May 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Wayback Machine every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp-wayback-machine -- npx -y mcp-wayback-machine
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-wayback-machine": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-wayback-machine"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-wayback-machine]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-wayback-machine"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-wayback-machine": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-wayback-machine"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-wayback-machine": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-wayback-machine"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: WAYBACK_ACCESS_KEY (Internet Archive S3 access key for higher SPN2 rate limits. Optional — anonymous mode works without it.), WAYBACK_SECRET_KEY (Internet Archive S3 secret key for higher SPN2 rate limits. Optional — anonymous mode works without it.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Wayback Machine — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Wayback Machine?
Wayback Machine runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package mcp-wayback-machine was installed 674 times last week.
How do I connect Wayback Machine?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mcp-wayback-machine straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Wayback Machine?
The npm package mcp-wayback-machine was installed 674 times in the last week. Week over week that is +34%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Wayback Machine open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 53 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.