Internet Archive

About this source

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

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What the assistant can do with it

The 3 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

• ia_search

  Search archive.org items.

• ia_get_item

  Metadata and file list for one item (identifier).

• ia_get_text

  Plain text of a digitised book/periodical item (its _djvu.txt), paged with offset.

Good to know

• 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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