data.bnf.fr is the open data service of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It publishes the authority records the national library maintains: the people it catalogues, with their dates, their…
mcp-databnf is an MCP project maintained in the smeet666/mcp-databnf repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “data.bnf.fr is the open data service of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It publishes the authority records the national library maintains: the people it catalogues…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The documented npm package is mcp-databnf. The configuration below comes from the maintainer’s example; adapt its paths and account values to your environment.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
Check the linked publisher documentation and your connected client's tool list. Names and availability can vary with the server version and account permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_authors | |
| get_author | |
| search_works | |
| get_work | |
| list_works | |
| list_editions | |
| find_digitised |
{
"mcpServers": {
"databnf": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-databnf"
]
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
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