Gutenberg MCP Server

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Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gutenberg-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://gutenberg.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

4 tools

• gutenberg_search_books

  Search the Project Gutenberg catalog of 78,000+ books. Every query word matches a title or author substring; filter by topic, language, author lifespan, IDs, MIME prefix or copyright status. More than four query words require the local mirror. Empty matches succeed with criteria…

• gutenberg_get_book

  Fetch complete metadata for a Project Gutenberg book by ID — title, authors (with birth/death years), translators, editors, source bibliographic notes, subjects, bookshelves, languages, copyright status, and the full formats map with download URLs (plain text, HTML, EPUB, cover…

• gutenberg_get_text

  Retrieve the plain-text content of a Project Gutenberg book, stripped of the standard license header and footer so the response contains only the literary work. For long works — novels routinely run 500KB–2MB — use offset and limit to read in chunks rather than fetching the…

• gutenberg_browse_popular

  Browse Project Gutenberg books ordered by downloads in the last 30 days at the source snapshot. Returns up to 32 titles with IDs, authors, languages, download counts, and is_readable. Filter by language, topic, MIME prefix or copyright status. Empty matches succeed with criteria…

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