# Saylor Innovations Data Desk – Internet Archive Search

> Saylor Innovations Data Desk – Internet Archive Search is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Search the Internet Archive for books, audio, films, software, and images, returning metadata sorted by popularity

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/archive/search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-data-desk-internet-archive-search-a326b143
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_GXz1_AUKyWArd8Lo6gG_p

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability saylor-innovations-data-desk-internet-archive-search-a326b143
```

Example prompt: Search the Internet Archive for audio recordings of Beethoven symphonies and give me the top results sorted by popularity, including download counts and links.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to discover or retrieve metadata about freely available digital content from the Internet Archive — books, audio, films, software, or images — especially when you want results ranked by community popularity (download count). It's ideal for finding public domain and open-access materials when you need direct archive.org item links and download statistics rather than just catalogue records.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required query parameter 'q' returns an error
- Very broad or common queries may return millions of matches but only a limited subset of items
- Unknown mediatype values may be ignored or return zero results
- Rare or very specific queries may return zero items
- API may be slow if the Internet Archive itself is under load

## How this service works

Search the Internet Archive for books, audio, films, software and images - title, creator, date, download count, size and item link, sorted by popularity

## Output

A JSON object containing the interpreted query string, the matched media type, the total number of matches, the count of returned items, a source attribution, an optional note, and an array of items each with title, creator, date, download count, file size, and a direct link to the item on archive.org, sorted by popularity.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Search words, e.g. apollo 11, moby dick, doom"
      },
      "mediatype": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "optional texts, audio, movies, software, image, data, web or collection"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "query",
      "items"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "note": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Caveat or context for reading the result"
      },
      "items": {
       "type": "array",
       "description": "List of items"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The query as the server interpreted it"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Data source the values come from"
      },
      "returned": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Number of items in this response"
      },
      "mediatype": {
       "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "total_matches": {
       "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
       ],
       "description": "Total number of matches before any limit is applied"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-data-desk-internet-archive-search-a326b143/health.json
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