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Polish Archives Indexes MCP Server

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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.

Installs per day peak 580 · avg 19
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11 Oct 2026
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MIT
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Python

Nothing serious here today

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.

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Connect this server

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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add polish-archives-mcp -- uvx polish-archives-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "polish-archives-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "polish-archives-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.polish-archives-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["polish-archives-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "polish-archives-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "polish-archives-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "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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Polish Archives Indexes — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Polish Archives Indexes?
Polish Archives Indexes runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package polish-archives-mcp was installed 580 times last week.
How do I connect Polish Archives Indexes?
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 runs locally, so the command pulls polish-archives-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Polish Archives Indexes?
The pypi package polish-archives-mcp was installed 580 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Polish Archives Indexes open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.