Pipeworx gutendex

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name: pipeworx-gutendex description: Search Project Gutenberg's 70,000+ free ebooks — by title, author, topic, or popularity via Gutendex version: 1.0.0 metadata: openclaw: requires: bins: - curl emoji: "📜" homepage: https://pipeworx.io/packs/gutendex

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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"]
    }
  }
}