Available API

Public-Domain Works

Complete current Project Gutenberg machine-readable catalog with titles, authors, languages, subjects, classifications, bookshelves, item links, and explicit item-level rights-verification requirements; full text is never retained.

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Status: 1/1 sources healthy
Contract: 1.0.0
Data version: gutenberg-catalog-2026.08.31
Current records: 119,890
Normal pull: monthly catalog reconciliation
Full reconciliation: January 1 and yearly

Coverage

What this API contains

Metadata and rights evidence for works that may be reusable in a specified jurisdiction.

Endpoints

Built for direct use

/apis/works · 1 credit/apis/works/{id} · 1 credit/apis/works/search · 1 credit/apis/authors · 1 credit

Standard list, search, detail, relationship, and conversion calls cost one credit. Bulk exports cost 100 credits.

Bounded preview

See the shape of the data

These are up to five fixed records from the current release. The preview has no paging, search, or export controls. A developer account and API key are required to query the full dataset.

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Source record

Where the data comes from

Healthy

Project Gutenberg Machine-Readable Catalog

complete current title, author, language, subject, classification, and bookshelf catalog metadata

Publisher: www.gutenberg.org
Last successful pull: Aug 31, 2026 · 3:05 AM UTC
License / terms: Project Gutenberg license and item-specific copyright status
Reuse review: Commercial: review_required · Redistribution: review_required