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MCP Archiveorg MCP Server

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MCP Archiveorg runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 333 installs a week from npm. Last commit 5 Nov 2026.

Search inside digitised books, browse the Internet Archive catalogue and read Wayback captures.

Installs per day peak 64 · avg 27 · -28% w/w
a month agotoday
333
Installs / week
npm · mcp-archiveorg
3
Stars
2 open issues
5 Nov 2026
Last commit
13 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MCP Archiveorg 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-archiveorg -- npx -y mcp-archiveorg
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-archiveorg": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-archiveorg"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-archiveorg]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-archiveorg"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-archiveorg": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-archiveorg"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-archiveorg": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-archiveorg"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: IA_USER_AGENT (Identify your own client. The project's own identifier is appended, so the Archive can always reach a human), IA_MIN_INTERVAL_MS (Minimum milliseconds between requests. Default 1000, floor 500), IA_HISTORY_TIMEOUT_MS (Deadline for the capture index, which answers in tens of seconds. Default 60000), IA_LOG_LEVEL (silent, error, info or debug. Default error. Logs go to stderr).

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MCP Archiveorg — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Archiveorg?
MCP Archiveorg 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-archiveorg was installed 333 times last week.
How do I connect MCP Archiveorg?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mcp-archiveorg straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use MCP Archiveorg?
The npm package mcp-archiveorg was installed 333 times in the last week. Week over week that is -28%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is MCP Archiveorg open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 3 stars on GitHub and 2 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.