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Arquivo Pt

Searches Arquivo.pt's Portuguese web archive, tracks URL captures, and reads extracted text from archived pages.

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Install Arquivo Pt

Pick your client, then add it in one click or paste the config.

STDIONode.js
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "arquivo-pt": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-arquivo-pt"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings → Developer → Edit Config, merge this into mcpServers, then fully quit and reopen Claude Desktop.

Install not yet sandbox-tested— the server itself is confirmed live (we called its tools/list endpoint). The stdio install command is a separate, ongoing check.

Overview

Arquivo Pt MCP server exposes Arquivo.pt's full-text archive search and page-history APIs through MCP. Search by terms or quoted phrases, then inspect capture metadata, retrieve extracted text, or enumerate versions of a known URL. It is useful for researching historical Portuguese web content, but full-text indexing can lag the archive's crawl by years. Hosted access is keyless, while the npm bridge supports authenticated usage and local stdio connections.

Use cases

  • Find archived Portuguese pages by phrase
  • Trace how a website changed over time
  • Read the text of a dated page capture
  • Locate historical references on international sites linked from Portuguese pages

Key features

  • Full-text search across Arquivo.pt captures
  • URL and domain capture history
  • Extracted plain-text retrieval
  • Date, site, file-type, and phrase filters
  • Replay, screenshot, and source-text links
  • Hosted MCP and local stdio access

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How Arquivo Pt works

What Arquivo Pt does

Arquivo Pt connects MCP clients to Arquivo.pt, the Portuguese web archive operated by FCCN. Its three tools support discovery and inspection of archived material:

  • arquivo_search_pages finds archived pages by words or quoted phrases when the address is unknown.
  • arquivo_url_history lists preserved captures for a domain, host, or complete URL.
  • arquivo_page_text returns the plain text extracted from one selected capture.

Search results include titles, original URLs, capture dates, matching snippets, replay links, extracted-text links, and screenshot links. URL history adds HTTP status, MIME type, content length, and a content digest for each capture.

How it works

Use full-text search to locate relevant pages, then pass a result's original URL and capture timestamp to arquivo_page_text. When the address is already known, start with arquivo_url_history instead; it returns captures newest first and can identify the timestamp needed for text retrieval.

Search accepts date boundaries in YYYY or YYYYMMDD form, site and file-type filters, pagination offsets, and a per-site result limit. A leading minus excludes a term, and quoted text searches for a phrase. URL history accepts a bare domain, host, or full URL with a path and query.

The hosted MCP endpoint is https://gateway.pipeworx.io/arquivo-pt/mcp. The full Pipeworx gateway is also available at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp. Both expose the Arquivo.pt tools through the same gateway; the scoped endpoint also includes shared Pipeworx meta-tools at the protocol level.

Setup and configuration

Add the hosted endpoint to an MCP client with a server URL pointing to the Arquivo Pt gateway. Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf are shown as supported client options.

For a local stdio connection, run npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-arquivo-pt. The package forwards requests to the hosted gateway and requires network access; it does not provide offline operation. Anonymous calls are available with a daily limit. A free Pipeworx account and PIPEWORX_API_KEY raise the daily allowance. Set PIPEWORX_META_TOOLS=1 if the local bridge should list the gateway-wide meta-tools as well as the Arquivo.pt tools.

Tools and capabilities

  • Search indexed page text with terms or exact phrases.
  • Filter searches by date, site, file type, and result position.
  • List historical captures for domains, hosts, and URLs.
  • Read archive-extracted plain text with an optional character limit.
  • Retrieve replay, text, raw-file, and screenshot links where returned.

Limitations and notes

Coverage focuses on .pt sites and Portuguese-language pages, while some international pages linked from Portuguese sites are also captured. The full-text index may trail the crawl by several years, so recent research for a known address should use arquivo_url_history rather than text search.

Arquivo.pt distributes requests across index nodes that can disagree or return malformed or delayed results. The integration retries once, removes rows lacking a usable URL or timestamp, and reports upstream faults rather than treating them as empty search results. Search results are deduplicated to two captures per site by default; increase per_site to inspect more captures. Do not submit a URL as a search query; use URL history for address-based lookups.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Arquivo Pt

Arquivo Pt is an MCP server that connects AI clients to Arquivo.pt, Portugal’s web archive. Its main tools search archived page text, list every preserved capture for a URL or domain, and read extracted text from a selected capture. It supports historical research when the original page is unavailable or has changed.

Run `npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-arquivo-pt` as a local stdio server, or configure the hosted MCP URL `https://gateway.pipeworx.io/arquivo-pt/mcp` in your client. The npm bridge needs network access and can use `PIPEWORX_API_KEY` for a higher daily allowance.

Yes, Cursor is listed as a supported MCP client. Configure it with the hosted Arquivo Pt endpoint, or use the npm package as a local stdio command.

Use `arquivo_url_history` when you know the page address, because the full-text index can lag the crawl by years. It lists captures newest first, including the timestamp and replay URL. Use `arquivo_page_text` with that timestamp to read the archived text.

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