Artbook Society — Public Catalog MCP Server

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answering

Artbook Society — Public Catalog is answering right now. Last checked 16 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Read-only access to the Artbook Society published catalog: books, artists, editors and events.

Uptime history 6 days of history

6 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

230 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Artbook Society — Public Catalog every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 16 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add public-catalog --transport http https://www.artbooksociety.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "public-catalog": {
      "url": "https://www.artbooksociety.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.public-catalog]
url = "https://www.artbooksociety.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "public-catalog": {
      "url": "https://www.artbooksociety.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "public-catalog": {
      "url": "https://www.artbooksociety.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

artist

get_artist

Fetch full public details for a single artist by their numeric id.

editor

get_editor

Fetch full public details for a single editor by their numeric id.

events

list_events

List published upcoming Artbook Society events, soonest first.

product

get_product

Fetch full public details for a single published product by its numeric id.

products

search_products

Search published books and artbooks on Artbook Society by title, author or contributor name.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.artbooksociety.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	296 ms	16 min ago

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Artbook Society — Public Catalog — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Artbook Society — Public Catalog do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_artist, get_editor, get_product, list_events, search_products. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Artbook Society — Public Catalog working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 230 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Artbook Society — Public Catalog?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Artbook Society — Public Catalog need an API key?

No. Artbook Society — Public Catalog completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Artbook Society — Public Catalog?

It answers our handshake in 230 ms on average, which is faster than 58% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.