Gutendex

Gutendex is a free Books API offering public domain books from Project Gutenberg. Great for building book apps, search tools, or literary projects with 60,000+ free eBooks.

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API Endpoints

Searches Project Gutenberg's public domain book collection

Full URL

https://gutendex.com/books/books

Code Examples

curl -X GET 'https://gutendex.com/books/books'

Parameters

{
  "search": "Sherlock Holmes",
  "languages": "en"
}

Example Response

{
  "count": 28,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 108,
      "title": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Conan Doyle, Arthur"
        }
      ],
      "download_count": 25432
    }
  ]
}

Version

v1

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