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pipeworx-gutendex

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

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/b-gutman/pipeworx-gutendex
Or

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

ToolDescription
search_booksSearch by title or author name
get_bookFull details for a specific book by its Gutenberg ID
popular_booksMost downloaded books on Project Gutenberg
books_by_topicBrowse 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"]
    }
  }
}

Metadata

Author@b-gutman
Stars4473
Views0
Updated2026-05-01
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Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-b-gutman-pipeworx-gutendex": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}
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