Archives Python Packages

nara-catalog-mcp

MCP server for genealogical research in the US National Archives Catalog: search records, read OCR text and citizen transcriptions, browse the hierarchy, and download page images.

dpla-catalog-mcp

MCP server for searching the Digital Public Library of America for genealogy and history: photographs, maps, county histories, directories and manuscripts from US libraries and archives, with the holding institution's record to cite.

brunnhilde

Siegfried-based characterization tool for directories and disk images

iga

IGA is the InvenioRDM GitHub Archiver, a standalone program as well as a GitHub Action that lets you automatically archive GitHub software releases in an InvenioRDM repository.

jsonid

Identification of JSON (JSONL, YAML, and TOML) objects: JSONID

wparc

Wordpress API data and files archival command line tool

snac-archives-mcp

MCP server for finding which archive holds the papers: search the SNAC Cooperative's index of archival collections and the people, families and organisations in them, and build ArchiveGrid searches. For genealogy and history.

auto-reference-generator

Auto Reference Generator for use in Digital Archiving

d8s-archives

Democritus functions for working with archives.

paperpress

Turn runs of old newspapers and magazines into a searchable, citable archive, a research corpus, and a website — on a laptop

tamagoarc

Game archive extraction/creation tool

demystify-digipres

Engine for analysis of Siegfried export files and DROID CSV

tabellio

Image of a civil-registry / parish record to validated structured JSON. BYOK, provider-agnostic, no embedded model, no storage.

fch

Crawler that grabs Twitter follower counts across time via internet archives given account user name

scons-tool-archives

SCons tool to create archives

eprints2bags

Download records and documents from an EPrints server and put them in BagIt format.

downloadunzip

creates, uploads, downloads, extracts and copies archives (zip, tar ...)

taupe

Taupe takes a downloaded Twitter archive ZIP file, extracts the URLs corresponding to tweets, retweets, replies, quote tweets, and liked tweets, and outputs the results in a comma-separated values (CSV) format that you can use with other software tools.

zippy-py

Multi-purpose archive toolkit for creation, extraction, exfiltration, and repair

py-zippy

Multi-purpose archive toolkit for creation, extraction, exfiltration, and repair

democritus-archives

Democritus functions for working with archives.

pathlesstaken

Profile strings, e.g. file paths for digital preservation considerations, e.g. characters that you want to preserve, or characters that you don't want to preserve.

unrar-wrapper

unrar_wrapper is a wrapper python script that transforms the basic UnRAR commands to unar and lsar calls in order to provide a backwards compatibility.