Usage notes

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/archive-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/archive-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/archive-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/archive-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "The Internet Archive — a non-profit digital library of 40 million+ items. /v1/search?q=jazz = search everything (filter mediatype=texts|audio|movies|image|software|web|etree (live concerts); sort=downloads|newest|oldest|trending|relevance) returning each item's identifier, title, creator, mediatype, year, download count and collections; supports Lucene field syntax, e.g. q=creator:(Mark Twain) AND mediatype:texts. /v1/item?id=TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer = an item's full metadata (title, creators, description, subjects, language, collections, publisher, license, date, downloads, file count & total size). /v1/files?id=... = the item's downloadable files with format, size and a direct download URL. /v1/wayback?url=example.com (optional timestamp=20100101) = the closest Wayback Machine snapshot of a web page (archived flag, snapshot date, HTTP status and the web.archive.org URL). Identifiers come from search results. Data from the Internet Archive. For modern book catalogue data see the Books API (Open Library).",
        "source": "Internet Archive (archive.org)",
        "endpoints": [
            "/v1/search",
            "/v1/item",
            "/v1/files",
            "/v1/wayback",
            "/v1/meta"
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T08:13:27.068Z",
        "request_id": "c3398619-d86d-45a7-a49a-369247610e70"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta retrieved",
    "success": true
}