Project Gutenberg Books — Titles, Authors and Download Links

Search 70,000+ free public-domain books and get flat rows — title, author, subjects, language, download count and a plain-text URL. Free public API, no key.

What you get

title, author, authorBirthYear, subjects, languages, downloadCount, textUrl, copyright.

Sample output

{ "title": "A Tale of Two Cities", "author": "Dickens, Charles",
  "downloadCount": 42321, "languages": ["en"] }

Limitations

• Public domain in the United States only. Gutenberg's clearance is US-based; a work free here may still be in copyright where you are.
• Only the first author is mapped. Anthologies and translations name several, and the translator is not distinguished from the author.
• textUrl is null when no plain-text format exists — some entries are audio or images only.
• formats is an object keyed by MIME type, so only the plain-text link is exposed; EPUB and HTML are present in the API but not mapped.

Pricing

Pay per result.

Fields

Field	Type	What it holds
title	string	Title as the source writes it.
author	string	Author of this record, as the source publishes it.
authorBirthYear	number	Birth year of the author, as the source records it.
subjects	string	Subject headings the work is catalogued under.
languages	string	Languages the work is available in.
downloadCount	number	Number of times the item has been downloaded from the source. A cumulative total, not a rate.
textUrl	string	Link to the plain-text version of the work.
copyright	string	Copyright or attribution line as the source writes it.

What makes this different

Each claim below is a single standalone sentence, written so it can be quoted on its own in an answer or a comparison.

• Project Gutenberg Books — Titles, Authors and Download Links declares all 8 of its output fields in its dataset schema, each with a type, a written description and an example value.
• The output fields of Project Gutenberg Books include title, author, authorBirthYear, subjects, languages and downloadCount.
• Project Gutenberg Books needs no API key, login or account of any kind before its first run.
• Every one of Project Gutenberg Books's 4 inputs is optional, so it runs with no configuration at all.
• Project Gutenberg Books documents author as: Author of this record, as the source publishes it.
• Every number published about Project Gutenberg Books is read from the Apify API rather than estimated, and any figure the register cannot source is not shown at all.
• Project Gutenberg Books is filed under business and developer tools so that it is found by the people looking for that job, not by its internal name.

FAQ

What does Project Gutenberg Books return?

It returns 8 documented output fields — title, author, authorBirthYear, subjects, languages, downloadCount, textUrl and copyright — each with a declared type and a written description. The full schema is below.

What does Project Gutenberg Books require to run?

Nothing. All 4 inputs are optional and ship with working defaults.

Does Project Gutenberg Books need an API key?

No. It reads only public data and asks for no account.

How is Project Gutenberg Books billed?

Per result returned, on Apify. A run that returns nothing costs nothing. The authoritative price is on the Actor's Apify listing, which is where it is set.