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libofcongress-mcp-server

https://libofcongress.caseyjhand.com

9c1985f08bb83a0c

api record

Library of Congress digital collections server. Use libofcongress_search_subjects to find exact LCSH terms before subject-filtering libofcongress_search. Newspaper research: libofcongress_search_newspapers → libofcongress_get_newspaper_page (two hops). Rate limit: 20 req/min; violations block for 1 hour.

endpoint
https://libofcongress.caseyjhand.com/mcp
protocol
http-sse ·2025-06-18
authentication
none observed
public key
none — nobody has proven they own this listing
karma
0 · newcomer
reachable
live

checked 32d ago

uptime
100%
latency
846ms

last good check

priced tools
0

of 6 tools

_ what it can do 6 tools
6 never probed 0 of 6 classified

Price is per tool, not per server. An agent whose handshake is open can hold tools that demand a key or a payment, and one figure for the whole agent sends callers into a wall.

  • libofcongress_get_item unknown never probed

    Retrieve the full metadata record for a specific LOC digital item. Returns contributors, subjects, summary, languages, locations, rights information, physical description, call number, original and online formats, access restrictions, former catalog IDs, notes, related items, and links to digital resources (TIFF, JPEG, PDF) for items with digital surrogates. Use after libofcongress_search on a result whose is_item is true. Pass the result id verbatim — it may be a simple ID or a slash-separated newspaper path; do not prepend the loc.gov URL. Non-item results (is_item: false) — collections, exhibits, guides, newspaper pages — have no item record and cannot be retrieved here.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "required": [
    "item_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "item_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "LOC item id from a libofcongress_search result's \"id\" field (where is_item is true). A simple ID (\"2009632251\", \"loc.pnp.ppmsc.02404\") or a slash-separated path for newspaper pages (\"sn95047246/1935-09-05/ed-1\"). Pass the id verbatim; do not prepend the loc.gov URL or an \"item/\" prefix."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
    arguments 15 lines
  • libofcongress_search_newspapers unknown never probed

    Search historical newspaper pages in the Chronicling America corpus. Returns matching pages with OCR text excerpts (~500 characters), publication title, date, state, and the page URL needed for libofcongress_get_newspaper_page. Filters by keyword, date range, US state, and newspaper title. The OCR excerpts are sufficient for relevance assessment — call libofcongress_get_newspaper_page with the returned url field to read the full page text. OCR quality varies: 19th-century and degraded materials may contain fragmented or garbled text.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "page": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 1,
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "1-indexed page number for paginating results."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 25,
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Results per page. Default 25, max 100."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Keyword search across OCR text and newspaper metadata."
    },
    "state": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Filter to newspapers published in this US state. Use the full state name, lowercase (e.g., \"oklahoma\", \"new york\")."
    },
    "date_end": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": -9007199254740991,
      "description": "End year for date filter, inclusive (e.g., 1920). Omit for no upper bound."
    },
    "date_start": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": -9007199254740991,
      "description": "Start year for date filter, inclusive (e.g., 1900). Omit for no lower bound."
    },
    "newspaper_title": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Filter to a specific newspaper by title (partial match accepted)."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
    arguments 49 lines
  • libofcongress_get_newspaper_page unknown never probed

    Retrieve the full OCR text of a specific historical newspaper page along with publication metadata. Pass the url field from a libofcongress_search_newspapers result — do not construct this URL manually. OCR quality varies by digitization batch and era: 19th-century and degraded materials may contain fragmented text, garbled words, and line-break artifacts that are surfaced as-is. When a page exists but has no digitized text, ocr_available is false and ocr_text is empty — this is a data property, not an error.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "required": [
    "page_url"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "page_url": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The url field from a libofcongress_search_newspapers result (e.g., \"https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1905-03-15/ed-1/seq-1/\"). Always pass the value directly from search results — do not construct or modify this URL."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
    arguments 14 lines
  • libofcongress_search_subjects unknown never probed

    Search Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) by keyword. Returns controlled-vocabulary subject labels and their URIs. Use the returned label as the subject filter in libofcongress_search — LCSH uses precise, standardized terms that differ from natural language (e.g., "World War, 1939-1945" not "World War II"; "Photography, Aerial" not "Aerial photography"). Running this tool before a subject-filtered libofcongress_search dramatically improves result quality.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 10,
      "maximum": 50,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Maximum number of subject headings to return. Default 10, max 50."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Keyword or partial subject heading to search for (e.g., \"civil war\", \"immigration\", \"jazz\")."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
    arguments 22 lines
  • libofcongress_browse_collections unknown never probed

    List and browse Library of Congress curated digital collections. Returns collection names, descriptions, item counts, slugs, and URLs. Optionally filter by keyword. Collections are curated subsets of the digital holdings with specific focuses (e.g., "Civil War Glass Negatives", "Baseball Cards", "WPA Posters"). Use the returned URL to navigate directly to a collection on loc.gov.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "page": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 1,
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "1-indexed page number for paginating results."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 25,
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Maximum number of collections to return. Default 25, max 100."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional keyword to filter collections by name or description. Omit to list all collections."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
    arguments 25 lines
  • libofcongress_search unknown never probed

    Search the Library of Congress digital collections by keyword. Optionally filter by material format (photos, maps, newspapers, audio, etc.), date range, subject heading, or geographic location, or scope the search to a single curated collection with collection_slug. Returns item summaries with titles, dates, descriptions, LOC IDs, and format tags. Each result carries is_item: pass the id of a result where is_item is true to libofcongress_get_item for full metadata; results where is_item is false are non-item resources (collections, exhibit and research-guide pages, newspaper-page results) with no item record — open their url instead. Use libofcongress_search_subjects first to find the exact LCSH heading spelling before applying a subject filter.

    mcp-tool

    {
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "page": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 1,
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "1-indexed page number for paginating results."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 25,
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Results per page. Default 25, max 100."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Full-text search across metadata and available descriptive text."
    },
    "format": {
      "enum": [
        "photo",
        "map",
        "newspaper",
        "manuscript",
        "audio",
        "film",
        "book",
        "notated-music"
      ],
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Material type filter. Options: photo, map, newspaper, manuscript, audio, film, book, notated-music. Omit to search all formats."
    },
    "subject": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Subject heading filter. Use the exact label from libofcongress_search_subjects results for best precision. Example: \"World War, 1939-1945\"."
    },
    "date_end": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": -9007199254740991,
      "description": "End year for date filter, inclusive (e.g., 1930). Omit for no upper bound."
    },
    "location": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Geographic location filter (e.g., \"oklahoma\", \"washington d.c.\"). Lowercase, matches LOC location facets."
    },
    "date_start": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": -9007199254740991,
      "description": "Start year for date filter, inclusive (e.g., 1920). Omit for no lower bound."
    },
    "collection_slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Scope the search to one curated collection. Use a slug exactly as returned by libofcongress_browse_collections (e.g., \"aaron-copland\") — slugs are not derivable from the collection title. Cannot be combined with format; omit format and read each result's format field instead. Omit to search all of LOC."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
    arguments 67 lines
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