Project Gutenberg Books Scraper | 70K+ Free eBooks
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Project Gutenberg Books Scraper | 70K+ Free eBooks
Export 70,000+ public-domain books from Project Gutenberg via the Gutendex API. Search by keyword, language, topic, or author lifespan, or fetch by book ID. Pull titles, authors, subjects, languages, download links, and full-text formats. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.
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📚 Project Gutenberg (Gutendex) Scraper
🚀 Export 70,000+ public-domain books with metadata and full-text download links in seconds.
This Apify Actor extracts structured data from Project Gutenberg (Gutendex), returning clean JSON / CSV / Excel / XML datasets ready for analytics, integrations, or research workflows. Built by ParseForge for reliability and freshness.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Data analysts, engineers, researchers | Analytics pipelines, BI dashboards, datasets |
| SaaS, fintech, marketing, ops teams | Lead gen, enrichment, monitoring |
| Hobbyists, journalists, indie devs | Side projects, content, exploration |
📋 What the Project Gutenberg (Gutendex) Scraper does
- Queries the public Project Gutenberg (Gutendex) API / feed and structures the response
- Returns one record per item with 10 normalized fields
- Supports filters configurable from the input schema
- Outputs to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML via Apify dataset
- Auto-limits to 10 items on the free plan; up to 1,000,000 on paid
💡 Why it matters: clean, ready-to-query data without manual scraping, parsing, or babysitting an API client.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: allFormats, authors, bookId, bookshelves, copyright, coverImageUrl, downloadCount, editors, epubUrl, htmlUrl, kindleUrl, languages, mediaType, plainTextUrl, readOnlineUrl, scrapedAt, subjects, summary, title, translators, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- Create a free Apify account with $5 credit
- Open this Actor and click Try for free
- Configure the input (
maxItemsand any filters) - Click Start
- Download the dataset as CSV / Excel / JSON / XML
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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Project Gutenberg (Gutendex). Only publicly available data collected.
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