com.usvipublicrecords/newspapers

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USVI Public Records: Newspapers

Publisher-provided description

Search Virgin Islands newspapers page by page, 1865 to 2001, with the gaps in every run named.

Summary by lookupd

Searches and reads OCR text of Virgin Islands newspaper pages from 1865 to 2001, listing papers, issues and coverage gaps.

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http newspapers https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add newspapers --url https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

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

Other clients: docs. Or tell your agent: Set up lookupd for me: read https://lookupd.com/agent.md and follow it.

Publisher-provided text

search Find pages of U.S. Virgin Islands newspapers by keyword or phrase; returns up to 10 pages, each with an id, a citation title and a URL. Use for a quick lookup i
fetch One page by page id: its record and up to the first 40,000 characters of its OCR text. Use to read a page found by search. The text is OCR from microfilm, retur
search_newspapers Search the islands' newspapers with paper and issue-date filters, ranked by how closely each page matches. Use when a question names a paper or a period, or nee
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. Use
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
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
newspaper_stats Reports the size and freshness of this newspaper index, its gaps and its standing caveats in one place. Use for questions about what the newspaper index covers

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