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Authenticate Gutendex once from your workspace and every action and trigger it supports becomes available to drop into a workflow. There is no glue code to write or maintain.

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Gutendex

Research & Academia

Search Project Gutenberg's 79,000 free ebooks through Gutendex, a keyless public API. Find books by title, author, topic, language or copyright status, list the most downloaded titles, get download links for every format, and pull a book's full text into a workflow. No account or API key is required.

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Steps your workflow can run in Gutendex.

Search booksSearch Project Gutenberg's catalogue of free ebooks. Every filter is optional and they combine: search words are matched against author names and book titles, and the rest narrow by topic, language, copyright status, when the author was alive, and which file formats the book is available in. Results are 32 books per page.

Get a bookFetch one book by its Project Gutenberg ID number, with its authors, summary, subjects, bookshelves, languages, download count, and a download link for every format it is published in.

Get books by IDFetch several books at once by their Project Gutenberg ID numbers, one request instead of one per book. Ids that do not exist are simply absent from the results.

Find books by authorList the books a given author wrote. Gutendex's own search matches titles as well as author names, so this action checks each result's credited authors, editors and translators and keeps only the real matches: searching 'Dickens' returns his novels, not books with Dickens in the title.

Find books by topicList the books filed under a topic: the phrase is matched against Project Gutenberg's bookshelves and subject headings. Alongside the books it returns the exact shelf and subject names that matched, which is the quickest way to find the precise wording to narrow a follow-up search with.

List popular booksList the most-downloaded books on Project Gutenberg, highest first. With no filters the first page is the overall top 32; add a language or a topic to get the most popular books within it.

Get book download linksList every file Project Gutenberg publishes for a book (plain text, HTML, EPUB, Kindle, the cover image and any audio), each with a readable label and a direct URL. Pick a format to also get that one URL on its own, ready to hand to a download step.

Get book textDownload the full text of a book, ready to summarise, translate or search. Gutendex supplies the link and the text itself comes from Project Gutenberg. The licence header and footer are removed by default, and the text is cut off at the character limit you set.