# osintverse-community/ia-search

Searches the Internet Archive's items (uploads, books, films, audio, software) with its advanced search syntax

## Install and run

```sh
ot install osintverse-community/ia-search
ot run osintverse-community/ia-search --query subject:osint
```

The first `ot run` installs the tool after asking once. New to `ot`? See https://otinstaller.com/docs/getting-started.

From an AI agent, through ot's MCP server (`ot mcp`):

```
run_tool {"tool":"osintverse-community/ia-search","inputs":{"query":"subject:osint"}}
```

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `query` | string | yes |  | Search query: words, or fields such as creator:"Bellingcat" or subject:osint |
| `limit` | integer | no | `100` | Most items to return |

## Outputs

Finds: document.

- `document`: Items: identifier, title, date, media type and creator

## What a run does

- Does not contact the target.
- Does not collect personal data.
- Does not need an account.
- Does not notify the target.
- Usually takes about 5 seconds.
- Connects to the internet.

An agent needs the person's consent before running this tool, because it goes online. See https://otinstaller.com/docs/agents#consent.

## Trust

- Latest version: 5.12.1
- Signed: yes
- Verified publisher: yes
- Health: unknown
- Installs in the last 30 days: 0
- License: AGPL-3.0
- Runtime: Python wheel (pipx), pinned by hash
- Repository: https://github.com/osintverse-community/ia-search
- Packaged by the community from a third-party tool

## Links

- Web page: https://otinstaller.com/osintverse-community/ia-search
- JSON: https://api.otinstaller.com/v1/tools/osintverse-community/ia-search
- README: https://github.com/osintverse-community/ia-search#readme
- Homepage: https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive
- Security details: https://otinstaller.com/osintverse-community/ia-search/security
- Report a problem: https://otinstaller.com/osintverse-community/ia-search/report