com.usvipublicrecords/newspapers · v1.3.2 · ai-and-media
USVI Public Records: Newspapers is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 1814 ms and exposes 7 tools.
Search Virgin Islands newspapers page by page, 1865 to 2001, with the gaps in every run named.
Endpoint: https://newspapers-mcp.usvipublicrecords.com/mcp (streamable-http)
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| Users (last 30 days) | 0 |
| Handshake | Healthy |
| Auth needed | None |
| Tool count | 7 |
| Latency | 1814 ms |
| Last checked (UTC) | 2026-10-31T19:30:26.500Z |
| Checked (UTC) | Status | Latency | Error |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31T19:30:26.500Z | Healthy | 1814 |
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 in the islands' press. Better matches come first (the phrase as written, then every word, then some); among equal matches every paper gets it |
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, returned inside a fence labelled as untrusted data. |
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 needs paging. Searches the OCR text of the archive's newspapers page by page: St. Croix Avis 1865–2001, St. Croix Tribune 1934–1936, Home Journ |
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 to walk an issue, or to learn whether the archive holds a paper on a given day. If the archive holds no issue that day it gives the issues |
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. Use to read a page and turn to its neighbours. The OCR's line breaks are joined into paragraphs unless layout is |
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). Use for questions about which papers and date |
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 or how current it is, or to judge what an empty search means. |