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Scrape the Project Gutenberg free eBook catalog. Search 70,000+ public domain books by title, author, topic, or language. Get complete metadata, subjects, bookshelves, and download links for every format (EPUB, HTML, plain text, Kindle).

Features

• Search by title/author: Find books by any keyword
• Filter by topic: Browse by subject like "science fiction", "philosophy", "children"
• Filter by language: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese
• Full metadata: Authors with birth/death years, subjects, bookshelves, download counts
• Download links: Direct URLs for EPUB, HTML, plain text, Kindle, and cover images
• Pagination: Automatically follows paginated results up to your limit

Output Fields

Input Options

• Search Query: Search by title or author name
• Topic: Filter by subject/bookshelf
• Language: Filter by language
• Max Results: Limit number of books (default 50, max 5000)

Use Cases

• Digital library building: Bulk download public domain books
• Literary research: Analyze authors, subjects, and popularity trends
• NLP/AI training: Gather text corpora by language or topic
• Education: Find free reading materials by subject area
• Data journalism: Analyze most popular public domain works

Example Output

{
"id":1342,
"title":"Pride and Prejudice",
"authors":[{"name":"Austen, Jane","birthYear":1775,"deathYear":1817}],
"subjects":["Courtship -- Fiction","England -- Fiction","Sisters -- Fiction"],
"bookshelves":["Best Books Ever Listings"],
"languages":["en"],
"downloadCount":75892,
"formats":{
"epub":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.epub3.images",
"html":"https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1342/1342-h/1342-h.htm",
"txt":"https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1342/1342-0.txt"
},
"copyright":false,
"scrapedAt":"2026-04-26T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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