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Project Gutenberg Scraper

Scrape Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org). Search 70K+ free public domain ebooks. Extract titles, authors, subjects, download formats (EPUB, Kindle, TXT, HTML), and full metadata.

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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

Field	Description
`id`	Gutenberg book ID
`title`	Book title
`authors`	Array of authors with name, birthYear, deathYear
`subjects`	Array of Library of Congress subjects
`bookshelves`	Array of Gutenberg bookshelves
`languages`	Array of language codes (e.g. "en", "fr")
`downloadCount`	Total download count
`formats`	Object with epub, html, txt, kindle, coverImage URLs
`copyright`	Boolean copyright status
`mediaType`	Media type (usually "Text")
`scrapedAt`	ISO timestamp

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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