Project Gutenberg Scraper

Extract free ebook catalogs, author bibliographies, download formats, and popularity rankings from Project Gutenberg. Built on spider-browser .

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target
gutenberg.org: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/gutenberg.org/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/gutenberg.org/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://gutenberg.org/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "book_title": "string",
    "author": "string",
    "language": "string",
    "subject": "string",
    "downloads": "string",
    "release_date": "string",
    "format_types": "string"
  }
}

# Project Gutenberg Scraper

**Book title**: string
**Author**: string
**Language**: string
**Subject**: string
**Downloads**: string
**Release date**: string
**Format types**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from gutenberg.org with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

project-gutenberg-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?sort_order=downloads");

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const books = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".booklink").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector(".title")?.textContent?.trim();
    const author = el.querySelector(".subtitle")?.textContent?.trim();
    const downloads = el.querySelector(".extra")?.textContent?.trim();
    const link = el.querySelector("a.link")?.getAttribute("href");
    if (title) books.push({ title, author, downloads, link });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: books.length, books: books.slice(0, 20) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/gutenberg.org/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/gutenberg.org/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/gutenberg.org/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);