arch.supply
A beautiful way to explore the Internet Archive
9 followers
A beautiful way to explore the Internet Archive
9 followers
Browse 40M+ posters, maps, type specimens, pulp covers and museum scans from the Internet Archive — for inspiration, research, or the sheer joy of it. Save to moodboards, pull color palettes, credit sources. No login, no API key.
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Craig and the creator of arch.supply.
I kept going down rabbit holes on the Internet Archive — 1930s travel posters, USGS topographic maps, vintage type specimens, pulp sci-fi covers — and loving what I found, but hating how I found it. The catalog is one of the wonders of the web, and the interface makes you work for every gem.
arch.supply is the visual front door I wanted. It's a fast masonry feed over 40M+ public-domain and openly-licensed scans, with:
🖼️ Moodboards — heart anything, it's saved instantly (no account needed)
🎨 Palette extraction — pull copyable hex codes straight off any scan
🔎 Real search — filter by era, media type, subject; shuffle for serendipity
🎵 Listen while you browse: set the mood as you browse with Raydio integration
📚 Page-through previews — flip through books and magazines in a lightbox
🔗 Shareable views — the whole search state lives in the URL
✍️ One-click credits — export a ready-made attribution list
It runs entirely in your browser — no backend, no API key — fetching live from archive.org's public APIs. Accounts and a daily-finds newsletter are optional extras; the core works signed-out and offline-friendly (it's a PWA).
It's an independent project, not affiliated with the Internet Archive — and a slice of any merch sales goes back to them, because they make all of this possible.
I'd genuinely love to know what you dig up. Drop the weirdest, most beautiful thing you find in the replies 👇
Hey PH! We have some exciting updates for you!
arch.supply just got a big update: introducing Fragments
We built arch.supply to make the Internet Archive's design and ephemera collections easier to explore. This update adds a feature we're really excited about: Fragments.
Crop anything, keep it forever
Ever find one panel of a comic, one ad in an old magazine, or one page of a manual that you actually want, not the whole 300-page scan? Now you can crop it. Open any item, hit Fragment, drag to select the part you want, and save it. It's hosted on our site with full provenance, so you (and anyone else) can always trace it back to the exact item and page it came from.
Organize your clips your way
Name your fragments, group them into your own categories, and choose whether they're public or secret, just like boards. They show up in a dedicated Fragments tab right next to your boards, and public ones surface in our Trending feed too.
Share them anywhere
Once you've got a fragment, send it wherever you want: pin it to Pinterest, post it to X, copy the image link, download it, or post it straight to your Are.na channels.
Speaking of Are.na
We also shipped direct Are.na integration for the whole site. Connect your account once and you can post any item (or the exact page you're looking at) straight into your channels, fully credited and linked back to arch.supply.
Plus a bunch of viewer fixes
We also spent time hardening the item viewer itself: better handling of multi-edition items (old magazine runs bundled together), a more reliable crop tool, and general resilience against the Internet Archive's occasional hiccups.
Come dig through the archive and see what you find. We'd love to hear what you think.