Search Project Gutenberg's 70,000+ free ebooks — by title, author, topic, or popularity via 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).
| 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") |
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.).
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx-gutendex": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gutendex/mcp"]
}
}
}