Preprocessed Gutenberg Catalog and Simple Gutenberg Utilities

Note: If you are looking for a full-fledged Gutenberg catalog library in Python, check out gutenberg or gutenbergpy.

Get the pickled native python Gutenberg catalog here (93MB).

The catalog is a list of dictionaries with one dictionary for each source in Gutenberg catalog. Example:

{
  'id': '24767',
  'title': ["Jack O' Judgment"], 
  'subject': ['PR', 'Detective and mystery stories, English'],
  'type': ['Text'],
  'language': ['en'],
  'author': ['Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar', 'Wallace, Edgar'],
  'author_birth': ['1875'],
  'author_death': ['1932'],
  'bookshelf': [],
  'format': ['application/epub+zip', ...],
  'publisher': ['Project Gutenberg'],
  'rights': ['Public domain in the USA.'],
  'date_issued': ['2008-03-06'],
  'num_downloads': ['59'],
}

This repository also contains some basic functionality to interface with the Gutenberg catalog. These are:

• GutenbergCatalog class that allows searching for book ids by author etc.
• get_text and strip_headers functions to download book texts and clean them. (These are copied from gutenberg library.)

catalog = GutenbergCatalog('gutenberg.pkl')
# search by author
book_ids = catalog.filter_by('author', 'Russell, Bertrand')

# get info about book
book_id = 2529
book_metadata = catalog.get_metadata(book_id)

# download and clean text for book
text = strip_headers(get_text(book_id))

The catalog file is generated by the parse_gutenberg_catalog.py script. You can modify this script to customize the parsing step and generate your own catalog file.