Trove
live ReferenceBooksTrove (National Library of Australia) — 6B+ items: digitised newspapers, books, images, maps & archives. Free API key.
2 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day
Tools
search Search the Trove collection by keyword. Returns matching items with ids (pass an id to work), titles, creators/sources, dates and links.
No parameters required.
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Response
work Fetch full details for one Trove item by id — a Trove work id (from search).
No parameters required.
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Response
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/trove/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/trove/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search","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", {}); ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("trove (national library of australia) — 6b+ items: digitised newspapers, books, images, maps & archives");