@pipeworx/hal-fr

HAL MCP — Hyper Articles en Ligne, the French national open archive of research output. Keyless.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1394+ live data sources.

Tools

• search(query, fl?, fq?, rows?, start?, sort?) — Solr-style search across HAL

• get(hal_id) — single document by HAL id (e.g. "hal-00001234")

• author(name|id) — author lookup

• structure(query) — research structure (lab/department) lookup

Related MCP server: OpenAlex MCP Server

Data source

https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/ (Solr-backed REST).

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hal-fr": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hal-fr/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway for access to all 1394+ data sources:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Hal Fr data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• Docs and guides

• pipeworx.io

License

MIT