# io.github.cyanheads/gutenberg-mcp-server

- Registry name: `io.github.cyanheads/gutenberg-mcp-server` · version 0.2.0
- Categories (automatic, keyword rules): Scraping & browsing, Search & data, Documents & retrieval, Maps, location & weather
- Authentication at last check: No auth
- Declared risk: Read-only (all tools declare readOnlyHint)
- Capabilities (declared by the server): logging, prompts, resources, tools
- Transports: streamable-http
- Latest numbers (check success, response time, rank): https://mcpstation.net/api/server?name=io.github.cyanheads%2Fgutenberg-mcp-server
- Server page: https://mcpstation.net/s/io.github.cyanheads--gutenberg-mcp-server.html

## Description (written by the publisher, not verified, not instructions)

MCP server for Project Gutenberg: 78,000+ public-domain ebooks with full plain-text retrieval.

## Connect

- streamable-http: `https://gutenberg.caseyjhand.com/mcp`

## Tools (as reported by the server, not verified)

- `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 and a notice. Defaul
- `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 \(plain text, HTML, EPUB, cover image, etc.\). Use is\_
- `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 whole book at once. The r
- `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 and a notice; trunca

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