Skills pipeworx-gutendex

Name: pipeworx-gutendex
Author: openclaw

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

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/b-gutman/pipeworx-gutendex" ~/.claude/skills/openclaw-skills-pipeworx-gutendex && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/b-gutman/pipeworx-gutendex" ~/.openclaw/skills/openclaw-skills-pipeworx-gutendex && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/b-gutman/pipeworx-gutendex/SKILL.md

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

Tool	Description
`search_books`	Search by title or author name
`get_book`	Full details for a specific book by its Gutenberg ID
`popular_books`	Most downloaded books on Project Gutenberg
`books_by_topic`	Browse 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"]
    }
  }
}