Wayback Machine for VS Code

io.github.mearman/mcp-wayback-machine

MCP server and CLI tool for interacting with the Wayback Machine without API keys

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Wayback Machine in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "wayback-access-key",
      "description": "WAYBACK_ACCESS_KEY",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "wayback-secret-key",
      "description": "WAYBACK_SECRET_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "mcp-wayback-machine": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-wayback-machine"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WAYBACK_ACCESS_KEY": "${input:wayback-access-key}",
        "WAYBACK_SECRET_KEY": "${input:wayback-secret-key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

Wayback Machine in other clients

Wayback Machine MCP server