Connects Claude to PoetryDB's public API for searching and browsing classic poetry without authentication. You get 12 tools across three categories: catalog browsing, targeted search by author, title, line text, or line count, and discovery helpers for random poems, sonnets, and haikus. The search_combined tool lets you query multiple fields at once, like finding all 14-line Shakespeare poems. Useful when you're building literary analysis workflows, need poetry datasets for testing, or want to add classic verse lookup to an assistant without maintaining your own corpus. Runs over stdio via npx, no API key needed. Built on top of thundercomb's poetrydb project.
claude mcp add --transport stdio io.github.lacausecrypto-poetrydb uvx poetrydb