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- # Project Gutenberg — Scraping & Data Extraction
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- `https://www.gutenberg.org` — 78 000+ free public-domain ebooks. Every workflow here is pure `http_get` — no browser needed.
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- ## Do this first
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- **Use the Gutendex REST API (`gutendex.com`) for all search and discovery. It is one call, returns clean JSON, and requires no auth. Go to gutenberg.org URLs only to fetch actual file content.**
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- # [45304] The City of God, Volume I — Augustine, of Hippo, Saint (147,663)
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- # [2701] Moby Dick; Or, The Whale — Melville, Herman (112,302)
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- START = "*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK"
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- END = "*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK"
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- s = raw.find(START)
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- e = raw.find(END)
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- if s != -1:
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- content = raw[raw.index('\n', s) + 1 : e].strip()
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- # 743 241 chars of actual novel text
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- ```
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-
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- The cache URL is the most reliable direct path. The `formats` dict in Gutendex also provides a redirect URL that resolves to the same file:
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-
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- ```python
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- # Both of these return identical content (763 083 chars):
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- http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.txt.utf-8") # redirect
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- http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.txt") # direct cache
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- ```
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-
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- ### Download formats available per book
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-
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- Every book's `formats` dict maps MIME type to URL. All URLs resolve to `/cache/epub/{id}/` files via redirect.
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-
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- | MIME type | URL pattern (after redirect) | Typical size |
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- |---|---|---|
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- | `text/plain; charset=utf-8` | `pg{id}.txt` | ~750 KB |
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- | `text/html` | `pg{id}-images.html` | ~850 KB |
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- | `application/epub+zip` | `pg{id}-images-3.epub` | ~25 MB |
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- | `application/x-mobipocket-ebook` | `pg{id}-images-kf8.mobi` | ~25 MB |
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- | `application/rdf+xml` | `{id}.rdf` via gutenberg.org | metadata XML |
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- | `image/jpeg` | `pg{id}.cover.medium.jpg` | cover image |
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- | `application/octet-stream` | `pg{id}-h.zip` | HTML+images zip |
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-
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- ```python
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- import json
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-
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- b = json.loads(http_get("https://gutendex.com/books/1342/"))
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- # Grab every downloadable format URL:
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- for mime, url in b['formats'].items():
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- print(mime, '->', url)
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- # text/html -> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.html.images
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- # application/epub+zip -> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.epub3.images
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- # application/x-mobipocket-ebook -> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.kf8.images
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- # application/rdf+xml -> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.rdf
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- # image/jpeg -> https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.cover.medium.jpg
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- # application/octet-stream -> https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342-h.zip
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- # text/plain; charset=utf-8 -> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.txt.utf-8
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- ```
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-
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- ### Fetch RDF/XML metadata for a book
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-
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- ```python
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- import re
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-
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- rdf = http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.rdf")
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- # Also available as: http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.rdf")
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-
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- title = re.search(r'<dcterms:title>(.*?)</dcterms:title>', rdf, re.DOTALL)
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- creator = re.findall(r'<pgterms:name>(.*?)</pgterms:name>', rdf)
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- birth = re.findall(r'<pgterms:birthdate[^>]*>(\d+)', rdf)
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- death = re.findall(r'<pgterms:deathdate[^>]*>(\d+)', rdf)
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- issued = re.search(r'<dcterms:issued[^>]*>(.*?)</dcterms:issued>', rdf)
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- rights = re.search(r'<dcterms:rights>(.*?)</dcterms:rights>', rdf)
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- downloads = re.search(r'<pgterms:downloads[^>]*>(\d+)</pgterms:downloads>', rdf)
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- language = re.search(r'<dcterms:language>.*?<rdf:value>(.*?)</rdf:value>', rdf, re.DOTALL)
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- subjects = re.findall(r'<dcterms:subject>.*?<rdf:value>(.*?)</rdf:value>.*?</dcterms:subject>', rdf, re.DOTALL)
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-
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- print(title.group(1)) # Pride and Prejudice
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- print(creator) # ['Austen, Jane']
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- print(birth, death) # ['1775'] ['1817']
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- print(issued.group(1)) # 1998-06-01
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- print(rights.group(1)) # Public domain in the USA.
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- print(int(downloads.group(1))) # 107502
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- print(subjects[:3]) # ['England -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction', 'Love stories']
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- ```
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-
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- Note: `<dcterms:language>` value is a subject string, not a language code. For language codes use the Gutendex `languages` field instead.
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-
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- ### Search the HTML catalog (25 results per page)
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-
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- Use this only when you need to leverage Gutenberg's own search index (author:, title:, subject: prefix syntax).
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-
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- ```python
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- import re, json
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-
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- html = http_get(
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- "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/"
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- "?query=shakespeare&sort_order=downloads"
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- )
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- # sort_order options: downloads, title, release_date, last_update, random
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-
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- entries = re.findall(r'<li class="booklink">(.*?)</li>', html, re.DOTALL)
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- books = []
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- for e in entries:
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- book_id = re.search(r'/ebooks/(\d+)', e)
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- title = re.search(r'<span class="title">(.*?)</span>', e)
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- author = re.search(r'<span class="subtitle">(.*?)</span>', e)
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- downloads = re.search(r'<span class="extra">([^<]+)</span>', e)
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- books.append({
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- 'id': int(book_id.group(1)) if book_id else None,
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- 'title': title.group(1) if title else '',
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- 'author': author.group(1) if author else '',
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- 'downloads': downloads.group(1).strip() if downloads else '',
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- })
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-
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- # books[0] = {'id': 1513, 'title': 'Romeo and Juliet',
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- # 'author': 'William Shakespeare', 'downloads': '74316 downloads'}
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-
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- # Paginate with start_index (25 per page)
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- html_p2 = http_get(
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- "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/"
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- "?query=shakespeare&sort_order=downloads&start_index=26"
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- )
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- ```
235
-
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- ### Browse a bookshelf (curated genre list)
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-
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- ```python
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- import re
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-
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- # Bookshelf 68 = Science Fiction
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- html = http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68")
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- titles = re.findall(r'<span class="title">(.*?)</span>', html)
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- # ['Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea', 'The War of the Worlds',
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- # 'The Time Machine', 'Thuvia, Maid of Mars', ...]
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- ```
247
-
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- ### OPDS catalog (machine-readable Atom feed)
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-
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- ```python
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- import re
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-
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- feed = http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.opds/?query=dracula")
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- # Returns Atom XML, 7 entries per page (including 1 metadata entry)
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- entries = re.findall(r'<entry>(.*?)</entry>', feed, re.DOTALL)
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- for e in entries:
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- title = re.search(r'<title>(.*?)</title>', e)
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- entry_id = re.search(r'<id>(.*?)</id>', e)
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- if title and entry_id and 'opds' in entry_id.group(1):
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- book_id = re.search(r'/ebooks/(\d+)\.opds', entry_id.group(1))
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- print(book_id.group(1), title.group(1))
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- # 345 Dracula
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- ```
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-
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- ## Gutendex API — full response schema
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-
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- Validated against a real call to `GET https://gutendex.com/books/1342/`:
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-
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- ```json
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- {
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- "id": 1342,
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- "title": "Pride and Prejudice",
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- "authors": [
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- {"name": "Austen, Jane", "birth_year": 1775, "death_year": 1817}
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- ],
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- "summaries": ["...automatically generated summary..."],
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- "editors": [],
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- "translators": [],
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- "subjects": [
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- "Courtship -- Fiction",
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- "Domestic fiction",
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- "England -- Fiction",
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- "Love stories",
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- "Sisters -- Fiction",
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- "Women -- England -- Fiction",
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- "Young women -- Fiction"
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- ],
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- "bookshelves": [
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- "Best Books Ever Listings",
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- "Category: British Literature",
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- "Category: Classics of Literature",
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- "Category: Novels",
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- "Category: Romance",
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- "Harvard Classics"
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- ],
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- "languages": ["en"],
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- "copyright": false,
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- "media_type": "Text",
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- "formats": {
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- "text/html": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.html.images",
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- "application/epub+zip": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.epub3.images",
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- "application/x-mobipocket-ebook": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.kf8.images",
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- "application/rdf+xml": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.rdf",
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- "image/jpeg": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.cover.medium.jpg",
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- "application/octet-stream": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342-h.zip",
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- "text/plain; charset=utf-8": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.txt.utf-8"
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- },
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- "download_count": 107502
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- }
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- ```
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-
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- List response wrapper (from `GET /books/`):
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-
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- ```json
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- {
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- "count": 6,
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- "next": null,
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- "previous": null,
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- "results": [...]
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- }
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- ```
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-
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- `count` is the total across all pages. `next` / `previous` are fully-formed URLs ready to pass to `http_get`, or `null` when absent.
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-
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- ## Gutendex query parameters
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-
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- All parameters combine freely.
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-
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- | Parameter | Example | Notes |
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- |---|---|---|
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- | `search` | `search=moby+dick` | Matches title and author |
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- | `ids` | `ids=1342,11,84` | Comma-separated; returns only those books |
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- | `languages` | `languages=fr` | ISO 639-1 code; comma-separated for multiple |
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- | `topic` | `topic=science+fiction` | Matches subjects + bookshelves |
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- | `author_year_start` | `author_year_start=1800` | Author born on/after year |
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- | `author_year_end` | `author_year_end=1850` | Author born on/before year |
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- | `copyright` | `copyright=false` | `false`=public domain, `true`=copyrighted |
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- | `sort` | `sort=popular` | `popular` (default), `ascending`, `descending` |
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- | `page` | `page=2` | 1-based; 32 results per page (not configurable) |
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-
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- `page_size` is not supported — always 32 results per page regardless.
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-
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- ## Finding book IDs
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-
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- Three ways, in order of preference:
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-
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- 1. **Gutendex search** — returns `id` directly in JSON.
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- 2. **Gutenberg HTML catalog** — `book_id = re.search(r'/ebooks/(\d+)', entry)`. IDs in the URL.
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- 3. **URL pattern** — `https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/{id}` — if you already know the ID from any source.
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-
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- Notable IDs validated in tests: `84` (Frankenstein), `1342` (Pride and Prejudice), `11` (Alice in Wonderland), `2701` (Moby Dick), `64317` (The Great Gatsby), `1513` (Romeo and Juliet), `100` (Complete Works of Shakespeare), `1661` (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes), `345` (Dracula).
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-
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- ## Rate limits
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-
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- Gutendex (`gutendex.com`) returns no `X-RateLimit-*` headers. Server is Apache/2.4.58 on Ubuntu. Rapid sequential calls can trigger connection resets — observed a timeout on the second call in a tight loop. Add a small delay between calls when paginating:
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-
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- ```python
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- import time, json
359
-
360
- url = "https://gutendex.com/books/?sort=popular"
361
- while url:
362
- data = json.loads(http_get(url))
363
- # ... process data['results'] ...
364
- url = data['next']
365
- if url:
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- time.sleep(0.5) # be respectful — no published rate limit but timeouts observed
367
- ```
368
-
369
- For gutenberg.org file downloads (txt, epub, etc.) there is no documented rate limit but Gutenberg asks not to use automated bulk downloading; use their [offline catalogs](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/offline_catalogs.html) for bulk access.
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-
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- ## Gotchas
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-
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- - **`.opf` 404**: `https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.opf` returns 404. Use `.rdf` instead — same path prefix, same data in RDF/XML.
374
- - **`formats` URLs redirect**: URLs like `https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.txt.utf-8` are redirect endpoints that resolve to `/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.txt`. Either form works with `http_get` (urllib follows redirects automatically), but the `/cache/epub/` direct URL avoids an extra round trip.
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- - **Two text files**: `/files/1342/1342-0.txt` (older Project Gutenberg edition, 729 KB) and `/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.txt` (modern edition, 763 KB) contain different versions of the same book. The Gutendex `formats` entry always points to the cache/modern version.
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- - **Boilerplate**: Every `.txt` file opens with a PG licence header and closes with a footer. Strip with `START`/`END` markers (see "Read the plain text" section above).
377
- - **`summaries` field is AI-generated**: The `summaries` array in Gutendex responses contains automatically generated summaries, not the author's original blurb.
378
- - **`copyright: false`** means public domain in the USA. Non-US copyright status is not tracked.
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- - **`page_size` ignored**: Passing `?page_size=5` to Gutendex has no effect — always returns 32 results.
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- - **Gutendex `sort=ascending/descending`** sorts by ID (oldest/newest book in the catalog), not by title or author name.
381
- - **Catalog search `author:` prefix**: `?query=author:dickens` searches within author names but Gutenberg's relevance ranking is fuzzy and can return unexpected results. For precise author lookup use Gutendex `?search=charles+dickens`.
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- - **OPDS pagination**: Only 7 entries per page (1 metadata + 6 books). Slow for bulk extraction — use Gutendex instead.
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- - **HTML catalog `start_index`**: Pagination is 25 per page. Next page = `start_index=26`, then `51`, `76`, etc. The value appears in the rendered HTML (`re.findall(r'start_index=(\d+)', html)` returns the next page's value).
1
+ # Project Gutenberg — Scraping & Data Extraction
2
+
3
+ `https://www.gutenberg.org` — 78 000+ free public-domain ebooks. Every workflow here is pure `http_get` — no browser needed.
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+
5
+ ## Do this first
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+
7
+ **Use the Gutendex REST API (`gutendex.com`) for all search and discovery. It is one call, returns clean JSON, and requires no auth. Go to gutenberg.org URLs only to fetch actual file content.**
8
+
9
+ ```python
10
+ import json
11
+
12
+ # Search by title/author keyword
13
+ data = json.loads(http_get("https://gutendex.com/books/?search=pride+and+prejudice"))
14
+ # data['count'] = 6 (total matches)
15
+ # data['results'] = list of up to 32 book objects
16
+ book = data['results'][0]
17
+ # book['id'] = 1342 ← use this ID for all further calls
18
+ # book['formats']['text/plain; charset=utf-8'] = direct txt URL
19
+
20
+ # Fetch the plain-text content of that book
21
+ text = http_get(book['formats']['text/plain; charset=utf-8'])
22
+ # Returns 763 083 chars including Project Gutenberg header/footer boilerplate
23
+ ```
24
+
25
+ For a known book ID, skip search entirely:
26
+
27
+ ```python
28
+ book = json.loads(http_get("https://gutendex.com/books/1342/"))
29
+ ```
30
+
31
+ ## Common workflows
32
+
33
+ ### Search by keyword and get the first result
34
+
35
+ ```python
36
+ import json
37
+
38
+ data = json.loads(http_get("https://gutendex.com/books/?search=frankenstein"))
39
+ if data['results']:
40
+ b = data['results'][0]
41
+ print(b['id'], b['title'], b['authors'][0]['name'])
42
+ # 84 Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
43
+ txt_url = b['formats'].get('text/plain; charset=utf-8')
44
+ if txt_url:
45
+ text = http_get(txt_url)
46
+ ```
47
+
48
+ ### Get the most downloaded books (popularity ranking)
49
+
50
+ ```python
51
+ import json
52
+
53
+ data = json.loads(http_get("https://gutendex.com/books/?sort=popular"))
54
+ for b in data['results'][:10]:
55
+ authors = ', '.join(a['name'] for a in b['authors'])
56
+ print(f"[{b['id']}] {b['title']} — {authors} ({b['download_count']:,} downloads)")
57
+ # [84] Frankenstein — Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (178,271)
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+ # [45304] The City of God, Volume I — Augustine, of Hippo, Saint (147,663)
59
+ # [2701] Moby Dick; Or, The Whale — Melville, Herman (112,302)
60
+ # [1342] Pride and Prejudice — Austen, Jane (107,502)
61
+ # [768] Wuthering Heights — Brontë, Emily (72,775)
62
+ # [1513] Romeo and Juliet — Shakespeare, William (70,272)
63
+ # [11] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Carroll, Lewis (65,243)
64
+ # [64317] The Great Gatsby — Fitzgerald, F. Scott (60,632)
65
+ # [100] Complete Works of Shakespeare — Shakespeare, William (60,527)
66
+ # [1260] Jane Eyre: An Autobiography — Brontë, Charlotte (57,602)
67
+ ```
68
+
69
+ ### Browse by genre / topic
70
+
71
+ ```python
72
+ import json
73
+
74
+ # 'topic' matches both subjects and bookshelves fields
75
+ data = json.loads(http_get("https://gutendex.com/books/?topic=science+fiction"))
76
+ # data['count'] = 3473 total results, 32 per page
77
+
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+ data = json.loads(http_get("https://gutendex.com/books/?topic=detective+fiction"))
79
+ # data['count'] = 111
80
+ # data['results'][0]: id=1661 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Doyle, Arthur Conan
81
+
82
+ # Filter by language (ISO 639-1 code)
83
+ data = json.loads(http_get("https://gutendex.com/books/?languages=fr&topic=roman"))
84
+ # data['count'] = 254 French books with 'roman' in topic
85
+ ```
86
+
87
+ ### Paginate through results
88
+
89
+ ```python
90
+ import json
91
+
92
+ url = "https://gutendex.com/books/?topic=science+fiction"
93
+ books = []
94
+ while url:
95
+ data = json.loads(http_get(url))
96
+ books.extend(data['results'])
97
+ url = data['next'] # None on last page
98
+ # data['previous'] is also populated after page 1
99
+ # e.g. data['next'] = "https://gutendex.com/books/?page=3&topic=science+fiction"
100
+ # All 3473 sci-fi books loaded across ~109 pages of 32 each
101
+ ```
102
+
103
+ ### Fetch multiple specific books by ID
104
+
105
+ ```python
106
+ import json
107
+
108
+ data = json.loads(http_get("https://gutendex.com/books/?ids=1342,11,84"))
109
+ # Returns exactly those 3 books, count=3
110
+ for b in data['results']:
111
+ print(b['id'], b['title'])
112
+ # 84 Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
113
+ # 1342 Pride and Prejudice
114
+ # 11 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
115
+ ```
116
+
117
+ ### Read the plain text of a book (boilerplate stripped)
118
+
119
+ ```python
120
+ raw = http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.txt")
121
+ # 763 083 chars total including PG licence header and footer
122
+
123
+ START = "*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK"
124
+ END = "*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK"
125
+ s = raw.find(START)
126
+ e = raw.find(END)
127
+ if s != -1:
128
+ content = raw[raw.index('\n', s) + 1 : e].strip()
129
+ # 743 241 chars of actual novel text
130
+ ```
131
+
132
+ The cache URL is the most reliable direct path. The `formats` dict in Gutendex also provides a redirect URL that resolves to the same file:
133
+
134
+ ```python
135
+ # Both of these return identical content (763 083 chars):
136
+ http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.txt.utf-8") # redirect
137
+ http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.txt") # direct cache
138
+ ```
139
+
140
+ ### Download formats available per book
141
+
142
+ Every book's `formats` dict maps MIME type to URL. All URLs resolve to `/cache/epub/{id}/` files via redirect.
143
+
144
+ | MIME type | URL pattern (after redirect) | Typical size |
145
+ |---|---|---|
146
+ | `text/plain; charset=utf-8` | `pg{id}.txt` | ~750 KB |
147
+ | `text/html` | `pg{id}-images.html` | ~850 KB |
148
+ | `application/epub+zip` | `pg{id}-images-3.epub` | ~25 MB |
149
+ | `application/x-mobipocket-ebook` | `pg{id}-images-kf8.mobi` | ~25 MB |
150
+ | `application/rdf+xml` | `{id}.rdf` via gutenberg.org | metadata XML |
151
+ | `image/jpeg` | `pg{id}.cover.medium.jpg` | cover image |
152
+ | `application/octet-stream` | `pg{id}-h.zip` | HTML+images zip |
153
+
154
+ ```python
155
+ import json
156
+
157
+ b = json.loads(http_get("https://gutendex.com/books/1342/"))
158
+ # Grab every downloadable format URL:
159
+ for mime, url in b['formats'].items():
160
+ print(mime, '->', url)
161
+ # text/html -> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.html.images
162
+ # application/epub+zip -> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.epub3.images
163
+ # application/x-mobipocket-ebook -> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.kf8.images
164
+ # application/rdf+xml -> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.rdf
165
+ # image/jpeg -> https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.cover.medium.jpg
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+ # application/octet-stream -> https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342-h.zip
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+ # text/plain; charset=utf-8 -> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.txt.utf-8
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### Fetch RDF/XML metadata for a book
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+
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+ ```python
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+ import re
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+
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+ rdf = http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.rdf")
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+ # Also available as: http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.rdf")
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+
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+ title = re.search(r'<dcterms:title>(.*?)</dcterms:title>', rdf, re.DOTALL)
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+ creator = re.findall(r'<pgterms:name>(.*?)</pgterms:name>', rdf)
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+ birth = re.findall(r'<pgterms:birthdate[^>]*>(\d+)', rdf)
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+ death = re.findall(r'<pgterms:deathdate[^>]*>(\d+)', rdf)
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+ issued = re.search(r'<dcterms:issued[^>]*>(.*?)</dcterms:issued>', rdf)
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+ rights = re.search(r'<dcterms:rights>(.*?)</dcterms:rights>', rdf)
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+ downloads = re.search(r'<pgterms:downloads[^>]*>(\d+)</pgterms:downloads>', rdf)
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+ language = re.search(r'<dcterms:language>.*?<rdf:value>(.*?)</rdf:value>', rdf, re.DOTALL)
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+ subjects = re.findall(r'<dcterms:subject>.*?<rdf:value>(.*?)</rdf:value>.*?</dcterms:subject>', rdf, re.DOTALL)
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+
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+ print(title.group(1)) # Pride and Prejudice
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+ print(creator) # ['Austen, Jane']
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+ print(birth, death) # ['1775'] ['1817']
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+ print(issued.group(1)) # 1998-06-01
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+ print(rights.group(1)) # Public domain in the USA.
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+ print(int(downloads.group(1))) # 107502
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+ print(subjects[:3]) # ['England -- Fiction', 'Young women -- Fiction', 'Love stories']
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+ ```
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+
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+ Note: `<dcterms:language>` value is a subject string, not a language code. For language codes use the Gutendex `languages` field instead.
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+
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+ ### Search the HTML catalog (25 results per page)
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+
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+ Use this only when you need to leverage Gutenberg's own search index (author:, title:, subject: prefix syntax).
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+
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+ ```python
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+ import re, json
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+
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+ html = http_get(
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+ "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/"
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+ "?query=shakespeare&sort_order=downloads"
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+ )
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+ # sort_order options: downloads, title, release_date, last_update, random
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+
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+ entries = re.findall(r'<li class="booklink">(.*?)</li>', html, re.DOTALL)
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+ books = []
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+ for e in entries:
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+ book_id = re.search(r'/ebooks/(\d+)', e)
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+ title = re.search(r'<span class="title">(.*?)</span>', e)
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+ author = re.search(r'<span class="subtitle">(.*?)</span>', e)
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+ downloads = re.search(r'<span class="extra">([^<]+)</span>', e)
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+ books.append({
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+ 'id': int(book_id.group(1)) if book_id else None,
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+ 'title': title.group(1) if title else '',
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+ 'author': author.group(1) if author else '',
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+ 'downloads': downloads.group(1).strip() if downloads else '',
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+ })
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+
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+ # books[0] = {'id': 1513, 'title': 'Romeo and Juliet',
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+ # 'author': 'William Shakespeare', 'downloads': '74316 downloads'}
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+
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+ # Paginate with start_index (25 per page)
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+ html_p2 = http_get(
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+ "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/"
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+ "?query=shakespeare&sort_order=downloads&start_index=26"
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+ )
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### Browse a bookshelf (curated genre list)
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+
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+ ```python
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+ import re
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+
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+ # Bookshelf 68 = Science Fiction
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+ html = http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68")
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+ titles = re.findall(r'<span class="title">(.*?)</span>', html)
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+ # ['Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea', 'The War of the Worlds',
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+ # 'The Time Machine', 'Thuvia, Maid of Mars', ...]
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+ ```
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+
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+ ### OPDS catalog (machine-readable Atom feed)
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+
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+ ```python
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+ import re
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+
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+ feed = http_get("https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.opds/?query=dracula")
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+ # Returns Atom XML, 7 entries per page (including 1 metadata entry)
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+ entries = re.findall(r'<entry>(.*?)</entry>', feed, re.DOTALL)
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+ for e in entries:
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+ title = re.search(r'<title>(.*?)</title>', e)
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+ entry_id = re.search(r'<id>(.*?)</id>', e)
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+ if title and entry_id and 'opds' in entry_id.group(1):
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+ book_id = re.search(r'/ebooks/(\d+)\.opds', entry_id.group(1))
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+ print(book_id.group(1), title.group(1))
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+ # 345 Dracula
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Gutendex API — full response schema
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+
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+ Validated against a real call to `GET https://gutendex.com/books/1342/`:
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+
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+ ```json
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+ {
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+ "id": 1342,
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+ "title": "Pride and Prejudice",
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+ "authors": [
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+ {"name": "Austen, Jane", "birth_year": 1775, "death_year": 1817}
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+ ],
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+ "summaries": ["...automatically generated summary..."],
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+ "editors": [],
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+ "translators": [],
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+ "subjects": [
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+ "Courtship -- Fiction",
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+ "Domestic fiction",
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+ "England -- Fiction",
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+ "Love stories",
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+ "Sisters -- Fiction",
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+ "Women -- England -- Fiction",
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+ "Young women -- Fiction"
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+ ],
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+ "bookshelves": [
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+ "Best Books Ever Listings",
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+ "Category: British Literature",
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+ "Category: Classics of Literature",
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+ "Category: Novels",
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+ "Category: Romance",
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+ "Harvard Classics"
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+ ],
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+ "languages": ["en"],
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+ "copyright": false,
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+ "media_type": "Text",
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+ "formats": {
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+ "text/html": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.html.images",
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+ "application/epub+zip": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.epub3.images",
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+ "application/x-mobipocket-ebook": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.kf8.images",
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+ "application/rdf+xml": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.rdf",
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+ "image/jpeg": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.cover.medium.jpg",
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+ "application/octet-stream": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342-h.zip",
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+ "text/plain; charset=utf-8": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.txt.utf-8"
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+ },
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+ "download_count": 107502
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ List response wrapper (from `GET /books/`):
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+
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+ ```json
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+ {
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+ "count": 6,
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+ "next": null,
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+ "previous": null,
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+ "results": [...]
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ `count` is the total across all pages. `next` / `previous` are fully-formed URLs ready to pass to `http_get`, or `null` when absent.
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+
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+ ## Gutendex query parameters
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+
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+ All parameters combine freely.
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+
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+ | Parameter | Example | Notes |
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+ |---|---|---|
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+ | `search` | `search=moby+dick` | Matches title and author |
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+ | `ids` | `ids=1342,11,84` | Comma-separated; returns only those books |
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+ | `languages` | `languages=fr` | ISO 639-1 code; comma-separated for multiple |
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+ | `topic` | `topic=science+fiction` | Matches subjects + bookshelves |
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+ | `author_year_start` | `author_year_start=1800` | Author born on/after year |
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+ | `author_year_end` | `author_year_end=1850` | Author born on/before year |
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+ | `copyright` | `copyright=false` | `false`=public domain, `true`=copyrighted |
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+ | `sort` | `sort=popular` | `popular` (default), `ascending`, `descending` |
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+ | `page` | `page=2` | 1-based; 32 results per page (not configurable) |
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+
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+ `page_size` is not supported — always 32 results per page regardless.
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+
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+ ## Finding book IDs
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+
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+ Three ways, in order of preference:
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+
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+ 1. **Gutendex search** — returns `id` directly in JSON.
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+ 2. **Gutenberg HTML catalog** — `book_id = re.search(r'/ebooks/(\d+)', entry)`. IDs in the URL.
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+ 3. **URL pattern** — `https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/{id}` — if you already know the ID from any source.
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+
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+ Notable IDs validated in tests: `84` (Frankenstein), `1342` (Pride and Prejudice), `11` (Alice in Wonderland), `2701` (Moby Dick), `64317` (The Great Gatsby), `1513` (Romeo and Juliet), `100` (Complete Works of Shakespeare), `1661` (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes), `345` (Dracula).
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+
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+ ## Rate limits
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+
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+ Gutendex (`gutendex.com`) returns no `X-RateLimit-*` headers. Server is Apache/2.4.58 on Ubuntu. Rapid sequential calls can trigger connection resets — observed a timeout on the second call in a tight loop. Add a small delay between calls when paginating:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ import time, json
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+
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+ url = "https://gutendex.com/books/?sort=popular"
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+ while url:
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+ data = json.loads(http_get(url))
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+ # ... process data['results'] ...
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+ url = data['next']
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+ if url:
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+ time.sleep(0.5) # be respectful — no published rate limit but timeouts observed
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+ ```
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+
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+ For gutenberg.org file downloads (txt, epub, etc.) there is no documented rate limit but Gutenberg asks not to use automated bulk downloading; use their [offline catalogs](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/offline_catalogs.html) for bulk access.
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+
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+ ## Gotchas
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+
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+ - **`.opf` 404**: `https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.opf` returns 404. Use `.rdf` instead — same path prefix, same data in RDF/XML.
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+ - **`formats` URLs redirect**: URLs like `https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.txt.utf-8` are redirect endpoints that resolve to `/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.txt`. Either form works with `http_get` (urllib follows redirects automatically), but the `/cache/epub/` direct URL avoids an extra round trip.
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+ - **Two text files**: `/files/1342/1342-0.txt` (older Project Gutenberg edition, 729 KB) and `/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.txt` (modern edition, 763 KB) contain different versions of the same book. The Gutendex `formats` entry always points to the cache/modern version.
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+ - **Boilerplate**: Every `.txt` file opens with a PG licence header and closes with a footer. Strip with `START`/`END` markers (see "Read the plain text" section above).
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+ - **`summaries` field is AI-generated**: The `summaries` array in Gutendex responses contains automatically generated summaries, not the author's original blurb.
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+ - **`copyright: false`** means public domain in the USA. Non-US copyright status is not tracked.
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+ - **`page_size` ignored**: Passing `?page_size=5` to Gutendex has no effect — always returns 32 results.
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+ - **Gutendex `sort=ascending/descending`** sorts by ID (oldest/newest book in the catalog), not by title or author name.
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+ - **Catalog search `author:` prefix**: `?query=author:dickens` searches within author names but Gutenberg's relevance ranking is fuzzy and can return unexpected results. For precise author lookup use Gutendex `?search=charles+dickens`.
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+ - **OPDS pagination**: Only 7 entries per page (1 metadata + 6 books). Slow for bulk extraction — use Gutendex instead.
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+ - **HTML catalog `start_index`**: Pagination is 25 per page. Next page = `start_index=26`, then `51`, `76`, etc. The value appears in the rendered HTML (`re.findall(r'start_index=(\d+)', html)` returns the next page's value).