Chronicling America

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Chronicling America MCP — full-text search of ~150 years of digitized U.S.

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Tools

search_newspapers

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, pl

No parameters required.

▶ Try it

Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_newspapers","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_newspapers", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("chronicling america mcp — full-text search of ~150 years of digitized u");