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mcp-books

An MCP server that allows agents to search the Internet Archive, Library of Congress, and data.bnf.fr simultaneously. It supports full-text search within scanned documents, catalogue browsing, and retrieving standardized records from these three major archives without requiring API keys or user accounts.

Package and access

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mcp-books logo, by smeet666Community listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by smeet666
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What you can do with it

  • Search for books mentioning specific topics like the Beaumont light-house
  • Find records related to historical events such as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
  • Read a specific record to identify who holds the original item
  • Search for works or authors in the BnF database

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 2.1.0MIT
mcp-registry: io.github.smeet666/mcp-books@2.1.0Source repositoryProject website
Last repository push
Latest release
v2.1.0
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Packages and installation

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mcp-books 2.1.0

npm
mcp-books package definition
{
  "version": "2.1.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "mcp-books",
  "registryType": "npm",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "BOOKS_USER_AGENT",
      "description": "Identify your own client. The project's own identifier is appended, so an archive can always reach a human."
    },
    {
      "name": "BOOKS_MIN_INTERVAL_MS",
      "description": "Widen the gap between two requests to one archive. Each archive keeps its own spacing when this is unset, and this can only make it wider."
    },
    {
      "name": "BOOKS_TIMEOUT_MS",
      "description": "Deadline for one request to an archive, in milliseconds. Default 45000."
    },
    {
      "name": "BOOKS_MAX_RETRIES",
      "description": "Retries on rate limiting and transient failures. Default 3."
    },
    {
      "name": "BOOKS_CACHE_TTL_MS",
      "description": "In-memory cache lifetime, in milliseconds. Default 900000. Set 0 to turn it off."
    },
    {
      "name": "BOOKS_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES",
      "description": "In-memory cache size. Default 200."
    },
    {
      "name": "BOOKS_LOG_LEVEL",
      "description": "silent, error, info or debug. Default error. Logs go to stderr."
    }
  ]
}

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Maintenance history

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  • · repository · passed · metadata changed · updated
  • · backfill · recorded · Pre-expansion baseline; unobserved rich metadata remains unknown

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-books-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-books@2.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BOOKS_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_BOOKS_USER_AGENT>",
        "BOOKS_MIN_INTERVAL_MS": "<YOUR_BOOKS_MIN_INTERVAL_MS>",
        "BOOKS_TIMEOUT_MS": "<YOUR_BOOKS_TIMEOUT_MS>",
        "BOOKS_MAX_RETRIES": "<YOUR_BOOKS_MAX_RETRIES>",
        "BOOKS_CACHE_TTL_MS": "<YOUR_BOOKS_CACHE_TTL_MS>",
        "BOOKS_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES": "<YOUR_BOOKS_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES>",
        "BOOKS_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_BOOKS_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-books-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-books@2.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BOOKS_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_BOOKS_USER_AGENT>",
        "BOOKS_MIN_INTERVAL_MS": "<YOUR_BOOKS_MIN_INTERVAL_MS>",
        "BOOKS_TIMEOUT_MS": "<YOUR_BOOKS_TIMEOUT_MS>",
        "BOOKS_MAX_RETRIES": "<YOUR_BOOKS_MAX_RETRIES>",
        "BOOKS_CACHE_TTL_MS": "<YOUR_BOOKS_CACHE_TTL_MS>",
        "BOOKS_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES": "<YOUR_BOOKS_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES>",
        "BOOKS_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_BOOKS_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-books-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-books@2.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BOOKS_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_BOOKS_USER_AGENT>",
        "BOOKS_MIN_INTERVAL_MS": "<YOUR_BOOKS_MIN_INTERVAL_MS>",
        "BOOKS_TIMEOUT_MS": "<YOUR_BOOKS_TIMEOUT_MS>",
        "BOOKS_MAX_RETRIES": "<YOUR_BOOKS_MAX_RETRIES>",
        "BOOKS_CACHE_TTL_MS": "<YOUR_BOOKS_CACHE_TTL_MS>",
        "BOOKS_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES": "<YOUR_BOOKS_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES>",
        "BOOKS_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_BOOKS_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-books-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-books@2.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "BOOKS_USER_AGENT": "<YOUR_BOOKS_USER_AGENT>",
        "BOOKS_MIN_INTERVAL_MS": "<YOUR_BOOKS_MIN_INTERVAL_MS>",
        "BOOKS_TIMEOUT_MS": "<YOUR_BOOKS_TIMEOUT_MS>",
        "BOOKS_MAX_RETRIES": "<YOUR_BOOKS_MAX_RETRIES>",
        "BOOKS_CACHE_TTL_MS": "<YOUR_BOOKS_CACHE_TTL_MS>",
        "BOOKS_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES": "<YOUR_BOOKS_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES>",
        "BOOKS_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_BOOKS_LOG_LEVEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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