Gutenberg — Public Domain Book Toolkit

Search, download, and extract clean text from Project Gutenberg — 70,000+ free public-domain ebooks. Ships a portable Python CLI with zero external dependencies.

Quick Start

# Search for books
python3 scripts/gutenberg search "Moby Dick"

# Download by Gutenberg ID (plain text)
python3 scripts/gutenberg download 2701 --format txt

# Download EPUB (for illustrated books)
python3 scripts/gutenberg download 2701 --format epub

# Extract clean text (strips PG boilerplate)
python3 scripts/gutenberg extract 2701