MCP server

Dpla

io.github.pipeworx-io/dpla

Checked 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

DPLA — the Digital Public Library of America.

Working at last checkOfficial: pipeworx.io's GitHub account (pipeworx-io)About 27,564 tokens per request once connected45 tools

https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dpla/mcp

At a glance

Type: MCP server
Publisher: pipeworx.io (verified by the MCP Registry)
Status: Working at last check
Tools: 45
Token cost: About 27,564 tokens per request
Sets up in: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok
Last checked: 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http dpla https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dpla/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.dpla]
url = "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dpla/mcp"

Gemini CLI

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

Cursor

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

VS Code

{"servers":{"dpla":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dpla/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add dpla https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dpla/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"dpla","server_url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dpla/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"dpla","server_url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dpla/mcp"}

dpla_collections ~374 tokens
Which named collections inside DPLA's contributing institutions hold material on a topic — the curated groupings an archive defines around a subject, a donor or a project — each with how many matching items it holds. Backed by the collection-title facet of DPLA's item search (DPLA retired its separa
dpla_item ~257 tokens
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 thumbnail, a link to the object on the holder's own site, and the raw source metadata as the institutio
dpla_search_items ~630 tokens
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 Archives, the Smithsonian, HathiTrust, Internet Archive and hundreds of state libraries, universities a

Libofcongress
Search LOC digital collections, Chronicling America newspapers (full OCR), and LC Subject Headings.
AI Digital Library Assistant
AI Digital Library Assistant, an MCP server on Hugging Face Spaces
Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections API
Agent integration with the Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections API
Chronicling America
Chronicling America MCP — full-text search of ~150 years of digitized U.S. newspapers…
MyLatinLife Data
Verified residency, citizenship, tax and banking data for Latin America and Latin Europe.
Feed America
US food pantries, meal programs, SNAP and WIC help from Feed America (EIN 92-1761881)
Nplg Catalog
National Parliamentary Library of Georgia MCP — the union catalogue and the
Insurers Global
Search the world's licensed insurers by country, class, group and regulator. Read-only, no auth.

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