Gutenberg MCP server
online · 100% uptimeMCP server for Project Gutenberg: 78,000+ public-domain ebooks with full plain-text retrieval.
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3 stars732 downloads/wk
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How Gutenberg compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 93/100
- higher than 96% of 48,255 servers
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote server answers 100%
- Response time
- 222 ms
- faster than 60% of 30,031 servers
- GitHub stars
- 3
- more than 80% of 28,688 servers
- Downloads a week
- 732
- more than 92% of 12,191 servers with a package
Release history: 8 versions in the registry since 2026-08-23, latest 2026-11-01, typically one every 8 days.
Install Gutenberg in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http gutenberg-mcp-server https://gutenberg.caseyjhand.com/mcp
What the publisher says
From the Gutenberg repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
@cyanheads/gutenberg-mcp-server Search, browse, and read 75,000+ public-domain books from Project Gutenberg with full plain-text retrieval and offset/limit chunking via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 4 Tools
Public Hosted Server: https://gutenberg.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Overview
Project Gutenberg's library of 78,000+ public-domain books, cataloged through the Gutendex API and served from a Gutenberg content mirror. Search by title, author, topic, or language, fetch full book metadata, and retrieve plain-text content in offset/limit chunks for long works from any MCP client. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.
Tools
Capability reference
gutenbergsearchbooks tool
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Gutenberg: common questions
- Is Gutenberg MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (93/100). Read the Gutenberg safety report
- How do I install Gutenberg?
- It runs remotely at gutenberg.caseyjhand.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Gutenberg need an API key?
- No secret keys are declared. It reads 7 settings from the environment.
- Is Gutenberg maintained?
- The last commit was 26 days ago (2026-10-08). The latest release is v0.3.2.
- Is Gutenberg up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- How does Gutenberg compare with other MCP servers?
- safety score 93/100 (higher than 96% of 48,255 servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote server answers 100%); response time 222 ms (faster than 60% of 30,031 servers). Full comparison.