Pipeworx gutendex

Search Project Gutenberg's 70,000+ free ebooks — by title, author, topic, or popularity via Gutendex

Project Gutenberg (Gutendex)

Project Gutenberg offers over 70,000 free ebooks. This pack wraps the Gutendex API to search by title, author, or topic, browse the most popular books, and get download links in multiple formats (EPUB, plain text, HTML).

Tools

Tool	Description
search_books	Search by title or author name
get_book	Full details for a specific book by its Gutenberg ID
popular_books	Most downloaded books on Project Gutenberg
books_by_topic	Browse by subject keyword (e.g., "science", "love", "history")

When to use

• Finding public domain books for text analysis or NLP projects
• Answering "what are the most popular free ebooks?"
• Building a reading list of classic literature by topic
• Getting download links for free ebooks in various formats

Example: search for Shakespeare

curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gutendex/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_books","arguments":{"query":"Shakespeare"}}}'

Returns titles, authors, download count, subjects, and format links (text/html, application/epub+zip, etc.).

MCP config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-gutendex": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gutendex/mcp"]
    }
  }
}