Europeana
liveArtEuropeEuropeana — 50M+ digitised cultural-heritage objects (art, books, photos, audio) from European museums, libraries & archives. Free API key.
2tools
0msauth
free tier50 calls/day
Tools
europeana_searchSearch the Europeana collection by keyword. Returns matching items with ids (pass an id to record), titles, creators, dates and image links.
No parameters required.
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Response
europeana_recordFetch full details for one Europeana item by id — a Europeana record id (the "id" field from search, e.g. "/2021601/foo").
No parameters required.
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Response
Test with curl
The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.
List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/europeana/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/europeana/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"europeana_search","arguments":{}}}'Use with the SDK
Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.
TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("europeana_search", {});ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("europeana — 50m+ digitised cultural-heritage objects (art, books, photos, audio) from european museums, libraries & archives");