search_newspapers
Pack: chronicling-america · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp
Full-text search of digitized historical U.S. newspapers (~1690s–present) from the Library of Congress “Chronicling America” collection. Find primary-source newspaper coverage of any person, event, place, or topic in history — returns the newspaper, publication date, city/state, a link to the digitized page, and the page-scan image URL. Filter by date range and U.S. state. Example: search_newspapers({ query: “influenza epidemic”, date_from: “1918”, date_to: “1919”, state: “oklahoma” }).
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
query | string | yes | Full-text search terms (matched against the OCR’d newspaper text). |
date_from | string | no | Earliest year or date (e.g. “1918” or “1918-01-01”). Defaults to the collection start. |
date_to | string | no | Latest year or date (e.g. “1919”). Defaults to present. |
state | string | no | U.S. state name to restrict to (lowercase, e.g. “california”, “new york”). |
limit | number | no | Number of results (default 10, max 25). |
Example call
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_newspapers","arguments":{}}}'Connect
Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:
{
"mcpServers": {
"chronicling-america": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp"
}
}
}See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.