Searches the Internet Archive's items (uploads, books, films, audio, software) with its advanced search syntax
Community-packaged from github.com/jjjake/internetarchive: the registry's community pins the upstream release; the tool is its authors' work. Maintain that project? Claim this package.
Run
Through ot mcp, an agent calls run_tool with this; ot asks you before anything that goes online or touches a target. Set it up: ot mcp install claude (or cursor, vscode, codex, gemini).
{"tool":"osintverse-community/ia-search","target":"subject:osint","input_type":"string"}Or just say: "Run osintverse-community/ia-search on subject:osint with OTInstaller." The registry's read-only MCP server at api.otinstaller.com/mcp can find tools without installing anything.
ot run osintverse-community/ia-search --query subject:osint --format tableot install osintverse-community/ia-searchPython wheel, run in a read-only container (Docker optional with --native) · network allowed · no key · up to 2 min. The first ot run installs the tool after asking once. The example value is the registry's own test input, so this command has run. Drop --format table for JSON.
Don't have ot? Install it in one line
curl -fsSL https://get.otinstaller.com/ot | shWhat this script does
- Downloads the latest
otrelease for your machine from GitHub Releases. - Checks its SHA-256 against
checksums.txt, and the Ed25519 signature on that file against the key built into the script. - Puts
otin /usr/local/bin or ~/.local/bin. Nothing else is written. Read the script.
irm https://get.otinstaller.com/ot.ps1 | iexWhat this script does
- Downloads the latest
otrelease for your machine from GitHub Releases. - Checks its SHA-256 against
checksums.txt, and the Ed25519 signature on that file against the key built into the script. - Puts
otin %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\ot, and adds it to your PATH. Nothing else is written. Read the script.
Evidence
Security tab →- Pinnedwheel
sha256:d6d5e0e7…27acb2from PyPI.otre-hashes the file after download and refuses a mismatch. - Signedby pypi:GitHub:jjjake/internetarchive/release.yml via pypi.org, verified by the registry on 24 Oct 2026.
otchecks the same identity before every install and refuses another signer. - Scanned24 Oct 2026: 0 critical, 0 high, 5 medium, 1 low vulnerabilities; 0 embedded secrets, 0 malware heuristics; SBOM with 10 packages.
- Workssmoke test passed on 24 Oct 2026 (exit 0 in 2.6 s, offline sandbox); the nightly health check has not run yet.
- Backed upa copy of this wheel is kept by the registry. If PyPI removes it,
otdownloads the copy and checks the same hash. - Reviewedosintverse-community is a verified publisher: the registry confirmed who runs it, and a person reviewed its first release against the acceptable-use rules.
From the community
Issues →Not health-checked yet; 5.12.1 came out today; nobody has said yet whether it works.
5.12.1 is in its first week. Nobody has said whether it works yet.
Used 5.12.1?It's broken for me
What you get back
Result envelope →{"date": "2020-12-03T00:00:00Z", "identifier": "ciberpatrullajeconjaviers-on-2020-12-03-23-57", "mediatype": "movies", "title": "CIBERPATRULLAJE con Javier Smaldone"}
{"identifier": "RADWIRE", "mediatype": "movies", "title": "RADWIRE"}
{"creator": "Tanja Glittenberg", "date": "2025-12-24T00:00:00Z", "identifier": "a-beginners-guide-to-spelling-names-right", "mediatype": "texts", "title": "A Beginner\u2019s Guide To Spelling Names Right"}
{"creator": "The Right Media", "date": "2020-11-01T00:00:00Z", "identifier": "youtube-oBcO-vSR5II", "mediatype": "movies", "title": "Matthew Ch. 12 & 13 Bible Study"}
{"creator": "Francis Dearnley", "date": "2023-09-07T00:00:00Z", "identifier": "riddle-mystery-and-enigma-09-07-2023", "mediatype": "movies", "title": "Riddle, Mystery & Enigma"}
{"creator": "Iranian Citizens", "date": "2023-05-01T00:00:00Z", "identifier": "protests-in-iran-05-01-2023a", "mediatype": "movies", "title": "Protests in Iran"}
{"creator": "Cody Bernardy", "date": "2022-08-20T00:00:00Z", "identifier": "youtube-0oyyxYq3qaM", "mediatype": "movies", "title": "Finding a Missing Child Using OSINT"}
{"creator": "Johnny Long", "date": "2007-08-04T00:00:00Z", "identifier": "johnny-long-no-tech-hacking_DEFCON15", "mediatype": "movies", "title": "DEFCON 15: No-Tech Hacking - Johnny Long"}
{"creator": "James Ker-Lindsay", "date": "2025-07-04T00:00:00Z", "identifier": "1-cambodia-and-thailand-border-crisis-07-04-2025", "mediatype": "movies", "title": "Cambodia & Thailand Border Crisis"}
{"creator": "Berend Watchus", "date": "2026-03-27T00:00:00Z", "identifier": "largest-unaddressed-asymmetry-in-synthetic-media-detection-identity-verification", "mediatype": "texts", "title": "Largest Unaddressed Asymmetry In Synthetic Media Detection, Identity Verification, And Human Facing AI Deployment New Method CES Framework By Berend Watchus Mar, 2026 Medium"}
{"creator": "William Spaniel", "date": "2025-11-26T00:00:00Z", "identifier": "01-the-steve-witkoff-leak-11-26-2025", "mediatyThe start of what version 5.12.1 printed on its test input (jsonl), recorded by the registry on 24 Oct 2026. ot run wraps it in the result envelope.
ia-search (community package)
This repository packages github.com/jjjake/internetarchive for the OTInstaller Registry as osintverse-community/ia-search. The tool is the work of its authors, under the AGPL-3.0 license; this repository only holds the manifest and release workflow.
Report problems with the tool upstream, and problems with the packaging here. If you maintain the upstream project and want to publish it yourself, open an issue or run ot claim osintverse-community/ia-search: the package is transferred to you.
It installs the upstream project's own release from PyPI, pinned by version and hash; nothing here is rebuilt.
Runs one page of archive.org's advanced search (--limit sets its size, 100 by default), which needs no key, and prints each item's identifier, title, date, media type and creator as a JSON line. Open an item at https://archive.org/details/<identifier>.
ot run osintverse-community/ia-search --query …Packaged version: 5.12.1.