INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

list_papers

Every paper this server holds: its LCCN, the holding library for each run, first and last issue, issues and pages, issues per year, the years with NO issue held, and every stretch of more than 14 days with no issue held (a year can be held only in part).

usvipublicrecords.comnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for list_papers and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

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Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

usvipublicrecords.com

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.usvi-public-records-newspapers]
url = "https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "usvi-public-records-newspapers": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: usvi-public-records-newspapers
Remote MCP URL: https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "usvi-public-records-newspapers": {
      "url": "https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "usvi-public-records-newspapers": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "usvi-public-records-newspapers",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

search — Find pages of U.
fetch — One page by page id: its record and up to the first 40,000 characters of its OCR text.
search_newspapers — Search the islands' newspapers with paper and issue-date filters, ranked by how closely each page matches.
get_issue — The pages of one issue of a paper on a date, in order, with each page's id, image (where the archive holds one), reader link and the holding library's copy.
get_page — The OCR text of one newspaper page, in windows of up to 40,000 characters (default 20,000), with the previous and next page ids, the page image where held, and the holding library's copy.
newspaper_stats — Reports the size and freshness of this newspaper index, its gaps and its standing caveats in one place.