io.github.mrfentmen/textfiles-mcp

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by mrfentmen · TypeScript

Use this MCP server to textfiles.com, the BBS era archive of zines, phreaking docs, and early...

Use this MCP server to textfiles.com, the BBS-era archive of zines, phreaking docs, and early materials. The server exposes access to that archive through the Model Context Protocol, enabling other MCP clients to retrieve or work with its text-based collections.

🛠️ Key Features

Targets textfiles.com (BBS-era archive)

🚀 Use Cases

Accessing archived zines
Accessing phreaking documentation
Working with early text materials from textfiles.com

⚡ Developer Benefits

Provides MCP integration for a textfiles.com archive

⚠️ Limitations

Available data only states purpose/description; no additional tools, capabilities, or configuration details are provided

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textfiles mcp

MCP server for textfiles.com, the definitive archive of BBS era text files: 1980s/90s zines, phreaking docs, hacker culture, and early net history.

Tools

Tool	What it does
`list_topics`	Topic sections (adventure, anarchy, hacking, phreak, magazines, music…)
`list_files`	Files + subdirectories inside a section
`read_file`	Read a text file (latin-1 decoded, it predates UTF-8)

Usage

bash

npm run build && node dist/index.js

Example:

code

list_topics {}
list_files { dir: "hacking" }
read_file { path: "hacking/22.txt" }

No API, the site is a static tree with its own HTML tables, parsed directly. Read the same DDN bulletins, phreak docs, and underground zines that shaped the early internet.

Install

Add to VS Code Add to Cursor

claude_desktop_config.json

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "textfiles-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "textfiles-mcp@1.0.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}