Or Dmv

@pipeworx/or-dmv

Oregon DMV MCP — live wait times at all 60 Oregon DMV field offices, plus the office locator the same payload carries. Keyless.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1679+ live data sources.

Oregon and North Carolina are the only two US states whose DMV publishes a machine-readable live wait feed. Every other state's is captcha-gated, blocked to cloud egress, broken, or only inside a phone app.

Tools

• or_dmv_wait_times(office?, city?, region?, open_only?, sort?, limit?) — average minutes until served and customers currently queued, per field office.
• or_dmv_offices(office?, city?, zip?, region?, limit?) — address, city, ZIP, phone, latitude/longitude, ODOT region, appointment-only flag and the office's ODOT page.

Auth

None. Keyless and unauthenticated.

Data source

https://dmv2u2.odot.state.or.us/waittimes/home/map

Scraped from HTML — no JSON endpoint exists

This is the one thing to know before depending on this pack.

ODOT renders the wait-time map server-side. There is no API behind it: the /api paths one would guess at return nothing. The office array is assigned to aveWaitModels inside an inline <script> tag on the page. The pack finds that identifier, brace-matches the array literal that follows it, and JSON.parses the result.

That makes Oregon structurally more fragile than an API-backed pack — an ODOT template change can move or rename the identifier and break extraction until this pack is updated. Those failures are reported as exactly that (the Oregon wait-time page no longer contains the aveWaitModels office array) with a hint pointing at nc_dmv_wait_times, rather than surfacing as a parsing bug of ours.

Gotchas this pack handles for you

Closed hours produce not_reporting, never a zero wait

Outside business hours ODOT sets waitTimeEnabled: false while leaving averageMinutesUntilServed at -1 and customersWaiting at 0. Publishing that as a zero-minute wait would read as "walk right in", so those offices come back as status: "not_reporting" with wait_minutes: null.

-1 is ODOT's unavailable sentinel and it survives waitTimeEnabled being true, so it is mapped to null in that case too. Responses always carry offices_reporting, and when nothing is reporting the note says the feed is switched off rather than the lines being empty. sort: "wait" puts reporting offices first for the same reason.

Fields deliberately dropped

Each office ships an ipAddress and a set of fieldOfficeMachine* fields. Those are ODOT's internal queue-terminal plumbing and are not republished. Everything else is passed through, including open, appointmentOnly and closeDescription (as closure_note), which carry real information about an office being shut.

Phone numbers arrive as bare ten-digit strings (5419672014) and are formatted as (541) 967-2014.

Regions

region matches on the six ODOT groupings: Central Oregon, Eastern Oregon, Portland Area, Southern Oregon, The Coast, Willamette Valley.

Related

• nc_dmv_wait_times / nc_dmv_offices — North Carolina, the other live state wait feed.
• ca_dmv_offices — California field offices (no wait feed published).

Quick Start

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

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

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/or-dmv/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

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

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1679+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/or_dmv_wait_times \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"office":"Portland"}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/or_dmv_wait_times. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "or-dmv": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-or-dmv"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-or-dmv

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Or Dmv data" })

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

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT