`dpla_collections`

Pack: dpla · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dpla/mcp

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/dpla_collections for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

Find named collections inside DPLA’s contributing institutions — the curated groupings an archive defines around a topic, a donor or a project — with title, description and DPLA URL. Use it to discover what a library has organised around a subject before pulling the individual records with dpla_search_items. Requires a free DPLA API key via _apiKey. Example: dpla_collections({ q: “Civil War”, _apiKey: ”…” }).

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`q`	string	no	Free-text search across collection title and description.
`title`	string	no	Words in the collection title.
`limit`	number	no	Collections per page, 1-100. Default 20.
`page`	number	no	1-based page number. Default 1.
`_apiKey`	string	yes

Example call

Arguments

{
  "q": "Civil War",
  "limit": 10,
  "_apiKey": "your-dpla-api-key"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dpla/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"dpla_collections","arguments":{"q":"Civil War","limit":10,"_apiKey":"your-dpla-api-key"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('dpla_collections', {
  "q": "Civil War",
  "limit": 10,
  "_apiKey": "your-dpla-api-key"
});

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dpla": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dpla/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

dpla_collections