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Project Gutenberg — Public Domain Book Toolkit

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

Why Install This Skill

When your agent loads this skill, it can work with the world's largest library of free ebooks. That means:

  • Search by title, author, or keyword — find any public-domain book
  • Download plain text or EPUB — choose the format that suits your use case
  • Extract clean content — strips Project Gutenberg licensing boilerplate automatically
  • Classify fiction vs non-fiction — categorize what you find
  • Full search-to-text pipeline — one command from title to clean text

What You Get

Directory Purpose
SKILL.md Quick start, how it works, command reference
scripts/gutenberg Portable Python CLI — search, download, extract, classify, pipeline

Quick Start

python3 scripts/gutenberg search "Moby Dick"
python3 scripts/gutenberg download 2701 --format txt
python3 scripts/gutenberg extract 2701
python3 scripts/gutenberg pipeline "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Triggers

Load this when someone mentions "Gutenberg," "public domain," "download a book," "classic literature," or any public-domain title or author.

Requirements

Python 3.8+ with zero external dependencies — uses only the standard library.