INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

search_images

Search 200,000+ historical illustrations, emblems, engravings, diagrams, AND 24,000+ artworks (paintings, prints, sculptures).

sourcelibrary.orgnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://sourcelibrary.org/api/mcp

No auth detected

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

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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.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

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

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.source-library]
url = "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "source-library": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: source-library
Remote MCP URL: https://sourcelibrary.org/api/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": {
    "source-library": {
      "url": "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "source-library": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "source-library",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://sourcelibrary.org/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

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

search_library — RETURNS A LIST OF BOOKS (works on a topic) — NOT passages.
search_translations — RETURNS QUOTABLE PASSAGES (page-level snippets + citation URLs), matched by KEYWORD/term.
search_concept — RETURNS QUOTABLE PASSAGES matched by MEANING (cosine similarity on Gemini embeddings, 768d) — paraphrases and adjacent phrasings match even with zero keyword overlap.
search_within_book — SEARCHES INSIDE ONE BOOK (requires book_id).
list_books — BROWSES/FILTERS THE CATALOG by metadata (author/title fragment, language, category, translation recency) — no content/topic matching.
get_book — READ PIPELINE step 1 — DISCOVER.
get_book_text — READ PIPELINE step 2 — READ.
get_quote — READ PIPELINE step 3 — CITE.