contentdm-mcp

An independent MCP server that allows agents to search US state archives and libraries publishing on OCLC's CONTENTdm platform. It supports searching collections, reading items and pages, fetching transcripts/OCR, and downloading page images via IIIF. It is designed for genealogy and history research, providing citation cores and holding institution details without writing data or maintaining family trees.

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What you can do with it

Search multiple state archive collections simultaneously
Read item metadata and OCR transcripts
Fetch page images over IIIF
Retrieve citation cores for genealogical records

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.1.0

mcp-registry: io.github.ianderso/contentdm-mcp@0.1.0 Source repository

Maintenance checked: Nov 1, 2026, 4:29 AM UTC

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contentdm-mcp 0.1.0

pypiuvx

contentdm-mcp package definition

{
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "contentdm-mcp",
  "runtimeHint": "uvx",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "CONTENTDM_CACHE_DIR",
      "default": "~/.cache/contentdm-mcp",
      "description": "Directory for the on-disk response cache."
    },
    {
      "name": "CONTENTDM_TIMEOUT",
      "default": "30",
      "description": "HTTP timeout in seconds for one request. Image downloads get 120 s to read."
    },
    {
      "name": "CONTENTDM_MIN_INTERVAL",
      "default": "1",
      "description": "Least seconds between two requests to one site. Never below 0.5."
    },
    {
      "name": "CONTENTDM_CONTACT",
      "description": "An email address or URL appended to the User-Agent, so an institution can reach whoever runs the server."
    },
    {
      "name": "CONTENTDM_EXTRA_INSTANCES",
      "description": "More CONTENTdm sites a tool may reach, beyond the curated ones and *.contentdm.oclc.org: https base URLs separated by commas, or the absolute path of a YAML file shaped like instances.yaml."
    },
    {
      "name": "CONTENTDM_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
      "description": "An existing folder. When set, get_image saves only inside it; needed to save under ~/Library, such as an iCloud Drive folder."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "contentdm-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "contentdm-mcp==0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CONTENTDM_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_CACHE_DIR>",
        "CONTENTDM_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_TIMEOUT>",
        "CONTENTDM_MIN_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_MIN_INTERVAL>",
        "CONTENTDM_CONTACT": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_CONTACT>",
        "CONTENTDM_EXTRA_INSTANCES": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_EXTRA_INSTANCES>",
        "CONTENTDM_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_DOWNLOAD_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "contentdm-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "contentdm-mcp==0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CONTENTDM_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_CACHE_DIR>",
        "CONTENTDM_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_TIMEOUT>",
        "CONTENTDM_MIN_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_MIN_INTERVAL>",
        "CONTENTDM_CONTACT": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_CONTACT>",
        "CONTENTDM_EXTRA_INSTANCES": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_EXTRA_INSTANCES>",
        "CONTENTDM_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_DOWNLOAD_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "contentdm-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "contentdm-mcp==0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CONTENTDM_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_CACHE_DIR>",
        "CONTENTDM_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_TIMEOUT>",
        "CONTENTDM_MIN_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_MIN_INTERVAL>",
        "CONTENTDM_CONTACT": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_CONTACT>",
        "CONTENTDM_EXTRA_INSTANCES": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_EXTRA_INSTANCES>",
        "CONTENTDM_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_DOWNLOAD_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "contentdm-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "contentdm-mcp==0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CONTENTDM_CACHE_DIR": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_CACHE_DIR>",
        "CONTENTDM_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_TIMEOUT>",
        "CONTENTDM_MIN_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_MIN_INTERVAL>",
        "CONTENTDM_CONTACT": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_CONTACT>",
        "CONTENTDM_EXTRA_INSTANCES": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_EXTRA_INSTANCES>",
        "CONTENTDM_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<YOUR_CONTENTDM_DOWNLOAD_DIR>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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