search_newspapers
shallowio.github.pipeworx-io/chronicling-america · Verify this server
Full-text search of digitized historical U.S. newspapers (~1690s–present) from the Library of Congress "Chronicling America" collection. Find primary-source newspaper coverage of any person, event, place, or topic in history — returns the newspaper, publication date, city/state, a link to the digitized page, and the page-scan image URL. Filter by date range and U.S. state. Example: search_newspapers({ query: "influenza epidemic", date_from: "1918", date_to: "1919", state: "oklahoma" }).
2 trials · measured 14 days ago
search_newspapers scores 50.0/100 on Vouch's measured behaviour index, from 2 real invocation trials against io.github.pipeworx-io/chronicling-america, measured 23 Sept 2026 under methodology v0.2.0. Every measured component scored 100.
Component breakdown
| Component | Weight | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 35% | not applicable |
| Schema integrity | 25% | 100.0 |
| Failure behaviour | 15% | not applicable |
| Latency | 15% | not applicable |
| Concurrency | 10% | not applicable |
Tool details
- Transport
- remote
- Credential class
- gated
- Input schema
- not declared
- Output schema
- not declared
- Side-effect classification
- read-only— Heuristically read-only-eligible (readonly-heuristic.ts) and sample-called by the Phase 0 census shallow probe.
Score history
| Day | Score | Tier | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-23 | 50.0 | shallow | v0.2.0 |
Probe evidence
| Probe | Outcomes |
|---|---|
| schema_integrity | pass: 1 |
| sample_call | fail: 1 |
Raw request/response logs are not archived yet — the outcome counts above are drawn directly from every recorded trial.
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