Give Claude 17M+ films and 14M audio recordings for $0 via Internet Archive API
_AustinCalvert_ · x · 2026-10-23
Elliot Padfield shares a zero-cost trick for Claude video editing: the Internet Archive offers a free, keyless API with 17M+ films and 14M audio recordings, including 10,000+ Prelinger public-domain stock films, 187,000 78rpm records, and 300,000+ live concert recordings.
- The recipe: give Claude the archive.org developer portal URL and instruct it to search the Prelinger and 78rpm collections for archival b-roll or period music whenever needed.
- Particularly useful for artsy tech ads needing archival footage.
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