About Internet Archive
Search 40M+ items with Lucene syntax (creator, subject, year range, media type), read an item’s metadata and file list, and page through the plain text of scanned books and periodicals. Good for out-of-copyright monographs, government reports and grey literature.
Questions you can ask Internet Archive
Type them into Kahubi’s chat once Internet Archive is connected.
“Find digitised annual reports of the Swedish Board of Health (Medicinalstyrelsen) from the 1910s.”
What comes back: Archive.org items with identifier, title, date and creator, plus the plain text of any volume you open.
“Is there a scanned copy of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica article on tuberculosis I can read?”
What comes back: The matching volume with its file list, and the article text paged from the scan.
Internet Archive MCP tools
The 3 tools the Internet Archive server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.
ia_searchSearch archive.org items.
ia_get_itemMetadata and file list for one item (identifier).
ia_get_textPlain text of a digitised book/periodical item (its _djvu.txt), paged with offset.
Using Internet Archive in Kahubi
- Hosted by Kahubi. Kahubi runs this server itself so it stays reliable enough for research use.
- Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
- Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to Internet Archive.
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