Polish Archives Indexes runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 580 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 11 Oct 2026.
Search Geneteka, the Poznań Project and BaSIA for Polish vital records; fetch archive scans.
Today is the operative word: we check Polish Archives Indexes every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add polish-archives-mcp -- uvx polish-archives-mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"polish-archives-mcp": {
"args": [
"polish-archives-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.polish-archives-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["polish-archives-mcp"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"polish-archives-mcp": {
"args": [
"polish-archives-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"polish-archives-mcp": {
"args": [
"polish-archives-mcp"
],
"command": "uvx"
}
}
}
This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
POLISH_ARCHIVES_CACHE_DIR (Directory for the on-disk response cache.), POLISH_ARCHIVES_TIMEOUT (HTTP timeout in seconds for one request. Scan downloads get 180 s to read.), POLISH_ARCHIVES_MIN_INTERVAL (Least seconds between two requests to one site. Never below 4; BaSIA always gets at least 10.), POLISH_ARCHIVES_CONTACT (An email address or URL appended to the User-Agent, so a site can reach whoever runs the server.), POLISH_ARCHIVES_DOWNLOAD_DIR (An existing folder. When set, swa_scan saves only inside it; needed to save under ~/Library, such as an iCloud Drive folder.).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
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