GET /services/search/v1/scrape

archive.org:archive.org-api

Summary: Scrape Search API
Operation ID: scrapeSearch
Auth: unknown
Description

Cursor-based REST API for retrieving large result sets without the 10,000 result limit. Minimum count is 100.

Parameters (6)

count (integer, query, optional)

Number of results (minimum 100)

Constraints: {'minimum': 100}

cursor (string, query, optional)

Cursor for pagination (from previous response)

fields (string, query, optional)

Comma-delimited metadata fields to return (e.g., 'title,identifier,creator')

q (string, query, required)

Search query using Lucene syntax

sorts (string, query, optional)

Comma-delimited fields to sort on

total_only (boolean, query, optional)

If true, returns only the total count

Examples (2)

TitleTypeURLAction
Scrape Search API openapi-spec https://archive.org/services/search/v1/scrape?q=collection:nasa&count=100
Search scrape with query and fields doc_extracted https://archive.org/services/search/v1/scrape?q=TRS-80&fields=identifier,title,description&sorts=title

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-03-23 10:48:26.258406 200 1456ms 2.1MB
2026-03-23 09:23:59.670164 200 846ms

Response Changes

WhenOldNew
2026-03-23 10:48:26.258406 9474c5ba070b 9b13eca52dbb