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MCP server for Project Gutenberg — 75,000+ public-domain ebooks with full plain-text retrieval.

Answered:

4 of 4 checks

Status
responds
Typical response time
307 ms
Last checked
Latest check:
This server answered at its latest check.Last checked  · MCP initialize · 8s limit · HTTP 200 · answered in 346 ms.
Address
https://gutenberg.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Listed in:
official MCP registry mcp_registry
Registry name
io.github.cyanheads/gutenberg-mcp-server
Transport
streamable HTTP streamable-http
Host
gutenberg.caseyjhand.com

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What the server says about itself

We have not checked it.
Server name:
gutenberg-mcp-server
Version:
0.1.6
MCP features it lists:
logging, resources, tools, prompts
Tool names:
gutenberg_search_booksgutenberg_get_bookgutenberg_get_textgutenberg_browse_popular
Instructions excerpt:
Project Gutenberg MCP server. No API key required. Typical workflow: gutenberg_search_books → gutenberg_get_book → gutenberg_get_text. Use gutenberg_browse_popular for discovery. gutenberg_get_text supports offset/limit chunking for long works — novels routinely exceed 500KB. Only books with has_plain_text=true can be read with gutenberg_get_text.

Reported Aug 17, 2026, 05:02 AM UTC.

Check history

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Recorded checks for gutenberg-mcp-server
CheckedStatusTookCheck
responds126 msMCP initialize · 8s limit · HTTP 200
responds352 msMCP initialize · 8s limit · HTTP 200
responds268 msMCP initialize · 8s limit · HTTP 200
responds346 msMCP initialize · 8s limit · HTTP 200

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