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MCP Databnf MCP Server

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MCP Databnf runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 109 installs a week from npm. Last commit 15 Oct 2026.

Search the BnF open catalogue: authors, works, editions and links to what is digitised.

Installs per day peak 69 · avg 27 · +7% w/w
a month agotoday
109
Installs / week
npm · mcp-databnf
0
Stars
1 open issue
15 Oct 2026
Last commit
8 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MCP Databnf 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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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 mcp-databnf -- npx -y mcp-databnf
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-databnf": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-databnf"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-databnf]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-databnf"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-databnf": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-databnf"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-databnf": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-databnf"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: BNF_USER_AGENT (Identify your own client. The project's own identifier is appended, so the BnF can always reach a person.), BNF_MIN_INTERVAL_MS (Minimum milliseconds between requests. Default 3000, which is also the floor.), BNF_TIMEOUT_MS (Deadline for one SPARQL query, in milliseconds. Default 60000.), BNF_MAX_RETRIES (Attempts after a busy answer. Default 3.), BNF_CACHE_TTL_MS (How long an answer is kept in memory, in milliseconds. Default 900000. Zero turns the cache off.), BNF_LOG_LEVEL (silent, error, info or debug. Default error. Logs go to stderr.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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MCP Databnf — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Databnf?
MCP Databnf 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 npm package mcp-databnf was installed 109 times last week.
How do I connect MCP Databnf?
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 mcp-databnf straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use MCP Databnf?
The npm package mcp-databnf was installed 109 times in the last week. Week over week that is +7%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is MCP Databnf open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.