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Project Gutenberg Books Scraper — Titles, Authors & Downloads

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Search and export Project Gutenberg's public-domain book catalog in bulk: title, authors with birth/death years, subjects, bookshelves, languages, download count and download links for plain-text and EPUB. Clean structured JSON, CSV or Excel.

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You can access the Project Gutenberg Books Scraper — Titles, Authors & Downloads programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

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OpenAPI

HTTP

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1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "search": "sherlock holmes" }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("hipersoft/gutenberg-books-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

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