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Gutendex Book Example

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Gutendex Book Example is an example object payload from Gutendex, with 13 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

idtitleauthorssummarieseditorstranslatorssubjectsbookshelveslanguagescopyrightmedia_typeformatsdownload_count

Example Payload

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{
  "id": 1661,
  "title": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Doyle, Arthur Conan",
      "birth_year": 1859,
      "death_year": 1930
    }
  ],
  "summaries": [
    "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892."
  ],
  "editors": [],
  "translators": [],
  "subjects": [
    "Detective and mystery stories, English",
    "Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction",
    "Private investigators -- England -- Fiction"
  ],
  "bookshelves": [
    "Detective Fiction",
    "Mystery Fiction"
  ],
  "languages": ["en"],
  "copyright": false,
  "media_type": "Text",
  "formats": {
    "text/html": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661.html.images",
    "application/epub+zip": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661.epub3.images",
    "application/x-mobipocket-ebook": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661.kf8.images",
    "text/plain; charset=us-ascii": "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1661/1661-0.txt"
  },
  "download_count": 25180
}

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