Video History Project is a remote MCP server that gives an AI agent 6 tools, among them describe_collection, export_citations, get_record. It answers at https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp over streamable HTTP, and it listed its tools to an anonymous client, so no sign-in was needed for that. Our probes reached it 4 of 4 times since 23 September 2026; the last check, on 6 November 2026, succeeded.
Search experimental video history, read public records, follow sources and export citations.
Description as the publisher wrote it.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
describe_collection | Describe the Video History Project collection, searchable text, filters, citation practices and response limits. Useful when beginning research. |
export_citations | Export citations for 1–25 VHP IDs or URLs. format is text or ris; target is publication (the cataloged work) or page (the VHP web page). Missing publication metadata returns a per-item error; choose page to cite a biography or history page. Inputs: ids, format, target |
get_record | Read a public VHP record by ID or VHP URL, resolving old addresses locally. Returns metadata, source links, citations and a section of existing text. Default section is body; choose other section names from sections. Follow content.nextOffs Inputs: id, section, offset, limit, version |
get_related_records | Get the site's existing similarity suggestions for a public record. These are research leads, not evidence of a historical relationship. May return no suggestions when the index has none or the editor has disabled them. Inputs: id, limit |
list_terms | Find catalog author or subject filter keys by part of a name. Returns exact keys, display labels and counts of discoverable records. field is author or subject. Follow nextPage; use a returned key in search_records. Inputs: field, query, page, limit |
search_records | Search public VHP records by words or quoted phrases. Empty query browses. Combine exact author/subject keys from list_terms, recorded years and a type from describe_collection. Follow nextPage. Excerpts label their source; read get_record Inputs: query, type, author, subject, from, to |
Every block below points at https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp. Pick your client and copy.
claude mcp add --transport http video-history-project https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"video-history-project": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp"]
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"video-history-project": {
"url": "https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp"
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"video-history-project": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp"
}
}
}{
"context_servers": {
"video-history-project": {
"url": "https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"video-history-project": {
"serverUrl": "https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"video-history-project": {
"url": "https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp"
}
}
}name: Video History Project
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
mcpServers:
- name: Video History Project
type: streamable-http
url: https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"video-history-project": {
"httpUrl": "https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"video-history-project": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"video-history-project": {
"url": "https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp"
}
}
}goose://extension?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.videohistoryproject.org%2Fmcp&type=streamable_http&id=video-history-project&name=Video%20History%20Project
It answered our last check on 6 November 2026 in 248 ms. Over 4 checks since 23 September 2026 it answered 4. Status here comes from Neuronto's own probes, not from the publisher.
Yes. It is published by videohistoryproject.org and served from www.videohistoryproject.org, the vendor's own domain: https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp.
6, as returned by the server's own tools/list on 9 November 2026: describe_collection, export_citations, get_record, get_related_records, list_terms, search_records.
It answered our last check on 6 November 2026 in 248 ms. Over 4 checks since 23 September 2026 it answered 4.
Put the server under mcpServers in ~/.cursor/mcp.json with the URL https://www.videohistoryproject.org/mcp. The exact JSON is above, with the same setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Gemini CLI and the rest.
It listed its tools to an anonymous client, so reading the tool list needs no key. Individual tools can still ask for credentials in their own inputs.
Publisher: org.videohistoryproject. Endpoint host: www.videohistoryproject.org. ARD identifier: urn:air:org.videohistoryproject:mcp:research.
First indexed 18 September 2026. The tools are exactly what the server returned; nothing on this page
is inferred from its name. Ranking in Neuronto search is never for sale.