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Internet Archive API

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The Internet Archive as an API — the non-profit digital library of over 40 million freely accessible items: books and texts, audio and live-music concerts, films and video, software, images and archived web pages. Search the entire archive by keyword with full Lucene field syntax (by creator, title, subject, collection and more), filter by media type (texts, audio, movies, image, software, web, live concerts) and sort by downloads, date or trending popularity, getting each item's identifier, title, creator, media type, year, download count and collections; read an item's full metadata including its description, creators, subjects, language, collections, publisher, license, dates and total size; list an item's downloadable files with their format, size, length and a direct download URL; and look up the closest Wayback Machine snapshot of any web page — the archived flag, the snapshot date and HTTP status, and the web.archive.org link, optionally near a target timestamp. Ideal for research, digital preservation, media discovery, dataset building, link-rot recovery and apps that surface public-domain and openly-licensed culture. Data from the Internet Archive (archive.org).

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/api/archive-api/openapi.json
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Uptime
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Server probes · 24h
Avg latency
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Free

Free

  • 600 calls / month
  • 2 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
  • 600 calls/month
  • 2 req/sec
  • Search, items & Wayback
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Starter

€7.50 /month

  • 22,000 calls / month
  • 6 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
  • 22k calls/month
  • 6 req/sec
  • Full item metadata & files
  • Email support
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Pro

€23.00 /month

  • 98,000 calls / month
  • 15 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
  • 98k calls/month
  • 15 req/sec
  • Media discovery at scale
  • Priority support
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Mega

€64.00 /month

  • 420,000 calls / month
  • 40 requests / second
  • Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
  • 420k calls/month
  • 40 req/sec
  • High-volume archiving
  • Dedicated SLA
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Live data from Wattpad, the world's largest storytelling social platform where writers publish serialized fiction and millions of readers follow, vote and comment, served straight from Wattpad's public API — no key, nothing cached. The search endpoint finds stories by keyword, each with its read, vote and comment counts, part count, completion and maturity flags, tags and author — a popular dragon-romance pulls hundreds of thousands of reads. The story endpoint returns one story in full: its description, cover, the engagement counts, the number of parts, language, tags and the author with their follower count. The user endpoint returns a writer's profile: their follower and following counts, the number of stories they have published, their bio and location — Wattpad's own account has tens of millions of followers. The user-stories endpoint returns a writer's published stories with each one's stats. Everything is live from Wattpad, nothing stored. This is the web-fiction social layer for any reading, discovery, writing-community or recommendation app. Distinct from mainstream social and the book-catalog APIs — this is Wattpad's stories, their engagement and their authors. 4 endpoints, no key on our side.

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Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about pricing, quotas, and integration.

How do I get an API key for Internet Archive API?
Sign up for free at oanor.com, generate an API key from the developer dashboard, and call Internet Archive API with the x-oanor-key header. No credit card needed for the free tier.
What's the rate limit for Internet Archive API?
Free tier allows 1 request per second. Paid plans scale up to 50 requests per second on the Mega tier. Hard limits return HTTP 429 above the quota — no surprise overage charges.
How much does Internet Archive API cost?
Internet Archive API has a free tier with 100 calls / month. Paid plans start at €7.50 / month with higher quotas and faster rate limits.
Can I cancel my subscription anytime?
Yes. Plans are billed monthly and you can cancel anytime from your billing dashboard. No long-term contracts and no cancellation fee.
Is Internet Archive API GDPR-compliant?
All requests to Internet Archive API go through our EU-based gateway. Your upstream API key never leaves our server and no personal data is shared with the upstream provider beyond the request you send.

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curl https://api.oanor.com/archive-api/SOME_PATH \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
const res = await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/archive-api/SOME_PATH", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
const data = await res.json();
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/archive-api/SOME_PATH");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
r = requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/archive-api/SOME_PATH",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."},
)
print(r.json())

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