IA Archive Viewer
Turns an Internet Archive view_archive.php listing into a browsable
file tree with inline previews and folder downloads.
Archive Viewer
Drag that button to your bookmarks bar. If dragging fails, create a new
bookmark by hand and paste the code below into its URL field — it will not
work if typed into the address bar.
Bookmarklet source
Usage
- Open any archive listing, e.g.
ia601002.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/11/items/….zip
- Click the bookmarklet. Press
/ to filter, arrows to navigate, Enter to open.
- Click a file to preview it — images, video, audio, PDF, text and Flash all load on demand.
- Hover a folder and hit
⤓ folder for the three download modes.
- Original puts the untouched archive.org page back.
Folder download modes
- Save to a folder on disk — streams each file straight to disk, keeps the
tree, no size ceiling, and skips files already downloaded at the right size. Chrome/Edge desktop only.
- ZIP — store-only ZIP assembled in the browser (ZIP64 and UTF-8 names handled).
Works in every browser; best kept under about 1 GB.
- aria2c / wget / URL list — export and finish outside the browser. The right
answer for multi-gigabyte archives.
Flash playback pulls Ruffle from a CDN. archive.org currently sends its CSP in
report-only mode, so this works; everything else in the tool is same-origin and unaffected.