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Getting started

Install archive and pull your first item out of the Internet Archive in under a minute.

Three short pages: what the Internet Archive is and how archive thinks about it, how to install the binary, and a guided first run that ends with you reading the metadata and files of a real item on your terminal.

Introduction What the Internet Archive is, and the handful of ideas archive is built around. Installation Install the archive binary with Homebrew, Scoop, a Linux package, Docker, go install, or a prebuilt archive. Quick start From an empty terminal to reading a real item's metadata and files, in a handful of commands.