`author`

Pack: hal-fr · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hal-fr/mcp

Author lookup (free-text query).

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	yes
`rows`	number	no	1-1000 (default 25).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "query": "Jean Dupont"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hal-fr/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"author","arguments":{"query":"Jean Dupont"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

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

const result = await pipeworx.call('author', {
  "query": "Jean Dupont"
});

More examples

{
  "query": "Smith",
  "rows": 50
}

Response shape

Field	Type	Description
`responseHeader`	object	Response metadata
`response`	object	Author search results

Full JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "description": "Author reference lookup response from HAL API",
  "properties": {
    "responseHeader": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Response metadata",
      "properties": {
        "status": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "HTTP status code"
        },
        "QTime": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Query execution time in ms"
        },
        "params": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Query parameters echoed back"
        }
      }
    },
    "response": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Author search results",
      "properties": {
        "numFound": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Total number of matching authors"
        },
        "start": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Starting offset of results"
        },
        "docs": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "Array of matching author records",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "Author reference object"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Connect

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hal-fr": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hal-fr/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

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