MCP Databnf

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Works with Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.

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What this server can do and what it asks for, from its tool list and install config. Checked Oct 25, 2026.

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• find_digitisedGather the digitised documents attached to a recordread-only

  Gather the digitised documents the Bibliothèque nationale de France catalogue attaches to one person or one work, and return them as links. Give the identifier of either; the tool asks the catalogue what kind of record it is and follows the right path. For a work it walks the editions; for a person it takes the images on the record and the digitised editions of the works they are credited with. The 'kind' returned is what the catalogue types the record as. Every result is a link for someone to open. This server reads the BnF catalogue and never requests gallica.bnf.fr, so it reports nothing ab…

• get_authorRead a person's recordread-only

  Read one person's record in the Bibliothèque nationale de France authority file, by the identifier search_authors returns. It carries the dates and places of birth and death, the occupation the record names, the language and country it associates with the person, the field of activity with its Dewey class, and the addresses for the same person in VIAF, IdRef, DBpedia, Wikidata and ISNI. It carries no biography. The field the BnF calls biographical information is a job title on most records and a single word on many, so quote it as what the catalogue states and do not build a life story out of …

• get_workRead a work's recordread-only

  Read one work's record in the Bibliothèque nationale de France catalogue, by the identifier search_works returns. It carries the title, everyone the record credits, the date the BnF gives the work, its language, its form and its subject with the Dewey class. 'forms' holds the work-form vocabulary's own terms, which carry no label in this dataset, so some read as words and some do not. A record stating none has a form the catalogue does not state. 'status' says whether the record is established or provisional, and 'status_statement' repeats what the catalogue itself states. A provisional identi…

• list_editionsList the editions of a workread-only

  List the published editions of one work in the Bibliothèque nationale de France catalogue, by the identifier search_works or get_work returns. Each row carries the publisher, the place, the year, the edition statement, the extent in the words of the record, the ISBN when there is one, and the record in the BnF general catalogue. An edition that has been digitised carries a link under 'digitised'. That link says a copy exists at that address; this server never opens it, so it cannot say whether the document is readable, complete, or free to reuse. Rows are ordered by the address the catalogue g…

• list_worksList the works a person is credited withread-only

  List the works the Bibliothèque nationale de France catalogue names one person the creator of, by the identifier search_authors returns. This is the tool for 'what did this person write'. Each row carries the title, the date the record gives the work, the form codes the catalogue points at, whether the record is established or provisional, and the identifier get_work, list_editions and find_digitised take. It is not a bibliography. It reports one link the catalogue holds, and the catalogue credits a person on a record in other ways and holds editions whose work it has never established, so a w…

• search_authorsFind a person in the BnF authority fileread-only

  Find a person in the Bibliothèque nationale de France authority file by name, and get the identifier the other tools take. This matches the name the BnF records, so it takes a surname, a full name or both names in either order. It does not read biographies, so it cannot find a person from what they wrote or what they did. It reads the person records and nothing else: an organisation, a conference or a place is outside it, and an answer holding no row says nothing about those. The match is letter for letter, so a name written with other accents or under another transliteration is a different se…

• search_worksFind a work by its titleread-only

  Find a work in the Bibliothèque nationale de France catalogue by words in its title, and get the identifier get_work and list_editions take. A row matches when its title carries every word given. The index returns no measure of how well a row matches, so the rows are ordered by the address of the record and the work a person would call the obvious answer can sit anywhere in the list or on a later page. A study of a book carries the book's title, so a search for a famous title returns the criticism alongside the work. Read 'creators' to tell them apart. This reads titles and nothing else. Searc…

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Oct 23, 2026 (7 days ago)

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Registry name

io.github.smeet666/mcp-databnf

Version

2.1.2

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No auth

Packages

npm mcp-databnfmcpb https://github.com/smeet666/mcp-databnf/releases/download/v2.1.2/mcp-databnf-2.1.2.mcpb

License

MIT

Repository

github.com/smeet666/mcp-databnf

Website

github.com/smeet666/mcp-databnf#readme

First seen

Oct 24, 2026

Last checked

Oct 24, 2026

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