A side-by-side look at the Internet Archive MCP Server and Karma.Domains Expired Domains MCP MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose Internet Archive MCP Server for search & data extraction work as a local process; choose Karma.Domains Expired Domains MCP for search & data extraction over a hosted endpoint. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
IA_MAX_SNAPSHOT_CHARS, IA_USER_AGENT.ia_find_snapshots, ia_get_snapshot, ia_search_items.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | K Karma.Domains Expired Domains MCP | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Search & Data Extraction | Search & Data Extraction |
| Quality signal | 53/100 · Good | 46/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Local subprocess (stdio) | Remote HTTP/SSE |
| Auth | Not declared | OAuth 2.0 |
| Pricing | Not declared | Freemium |
| Required env vars | IA_MAX_SNAPSHOT_CHARSIA_USER_AGENT | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 4 | — |
| Directory activity | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 5 | Not listed |
| Full listing | View Internet Archive MCP Server | View Karma.Domains Expired Domains MCP |
ia_find_snapshotsFind Wayback Machine snapshots of a URL, by closest timestamp or full capture historyia_get_snapshotFetch archived page content at a specific Wayback timestampia_search_itemsSearch the IA library (40M+ items) by keyword and metadata filtersia_get_itemRetrieve full metadata and file manifest for an Archive itemia_get_textRetrieve readable OCR text from a text item, with pagingNo tool names declared yet. Check the project README from the listing page.
Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"internet-archive-mcp-server": {
"command": "bunx",
"args": [
"@cyanheads/internet-archive-mcp-server@latest"
],
"env": {
"IA_MAX_SNAPSHOT_CHARS": "YOUR_IA_MAX_SNAPSHOT_CHARS_HERE",
"IA_USER_AGENT": "YOUR_IA_USER_AGENT_HERE"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"karma-domains-expired-domains-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"karma-domains-expired-domains-mcp"
]
}
}
}