Dpla

liveBooks

DPLA — the Digital Public Library of America.

3tools
0msauth
free tier50 calls/day

Tools

dpla_search_items

Search ~50 million digitised items aggregated by the Digital Public Library of America — photographs, letters, maps, newspapers, oral histories and books from the Library of Congress, the National Arc

No parameters required.

▶Try it
dpla_item

One DPLA record in full by its id: title, creator, date, description, subjects, language, place, format, rights statement, the institution holding the original, the DPLA hub that contributed it, a thu

No parameters required.

▶Try it
dpla_collections

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 discove

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/dpla/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/dpla/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"dpla_search_items","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("dpla_search_items", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("dpla — the digital public library of america");