Trove

live ReferenceBooks

Trove (National Library of Australia) — 6B+ items: digitised newspapers, books, images, maps & archives. Requires your own Trove API key (_apiKey), free from the National Library.

2 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day
🔑 Authentication

BYO only. Trove requires a free API key from the National Library of Australia — create an account, then Create an API key. Pass it as _apiKey on the gateway URL.

Config with credentials

Get an API key →

Tools

work

Fetch full details for one Trove item by id — a Trove work id (from search).

No parameters required.

▶ Try it

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/trove/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/trove/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"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("search", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("trove (national library of australia) — 6b+ items: digitised newspapers, books, images, maps & archives");