Chronicling America MCP
A community MCP server that enables full-text search of digitized historical U.S. newspapers from the Library of Congress Chronicling America collection, covering approximately 150 years of primary-source newspaper coverage.
Package and access
Local package with source-attributed installation metadata. Koskamo does not execute packages during review.
What you can do with it
- Search for primary-source newspaper coverage of any person, event, or place
- Access digitized historical U.S. newspapers from the 1690s to present
- Retrieve newspaper data via JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST
Source and maintenance
- Last repository push
- Maintenance checked
Packages and installation
Source-provided package data. Koskamo has not executed or live-probed this package.
@pipeworx/mcp-chronicling-america 0.2.1
{
"version": "0.2.1",
"transport": "stdio",
"identifier": "@pipeworx/mcp-chronicling-america",
"registryType": "npm",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "PIPEWORX_API_KEY",
"description": "Optional Pipeworx API key. Without it calls are anonymous and capped daily; a free key raises the cap."
}
]
}Tools
Reported by the attributed source; not independently observed by Koskamo.
Maintenance history
Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.
- · repository · passed · metadata changed · updated
- · backfill · recorded · Pre-expansion baseline; unobserved rich metadata remains unknown
Connect from your client
Each snippet configures the same source-provided package; replace placeholders before use.
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{
"mcpServers": {
"chronicling-america-mcp-pipeworx-mcp-chronicling-america": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-chronicling-america@0.2.1"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"chronicling-america-mcp-pipeworx-mcp-chronicling-america": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-chronicling-america@0.2.1"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"chronicling-america-mcp-pipeworx-mcp-chronicling-america": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-chronicling-america@0.2.1"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"chronicling-america-mcp-pipeworx-mcp-chronicling-america": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-chronicling-america@0.2.1"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
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