Chronicling America MCP Server

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answering

Chronicling America is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. Last commit 16 Sep 2026.

Chronicling America MCP — full-text search of ~150 years of digitized U.S.

Uptime history 4 days of history

4 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

—

Tools

hidden behind auth

184 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 16 Sep 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Chronicling America 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 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

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

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chronicling-america": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.chronicling-america]
url = "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chronicling-america": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chronicling-america": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp	streamable-http	answering	98 ms	9 min ago

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Chronicling America — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Is Chronicling America 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 184 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Chronicling America?

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 Chronicling America need an API key?

No. Chronicling America completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Chronicling America?

It answers our handshake in 184 ms on average, which is faster than 69% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Chronicling America open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript 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.