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Gutendex Get Book Example

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Gutendex Get 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

{
  "id": 84,
  "title": "Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft",
      "birth_year": 1797,
      "death_year": 1851
    }
  ],
  "summaries": [
    "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel about the creation of a sapient creature by an unorthodox scientific experiment."
  ],
  "editors": [],
  "translators": [],
  "subjects": [
    "Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction",
    "Gothic fiction",
    "Horror tales",
    "Monsters -- Fiction",
    "Science fiction"
  ],
  "bookshelves": [
    "Gothic Fiction",
    "Movie Books",
    "Precursors of Science Fiction",
    "Science Fiction by Women"
  ],
  "languages": ["en"],
  "copyright": false,
  "media_type": "Text",
  "formats": {
    "text/html": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84.html.images",
    "application/epub+zip": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84.epub3.images",
    "application/x-mobipocket-ebook": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84.kf8.images",
    "text/plain; charset=utf-8": "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-0.txt",
    "image/jpeg": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/84/pg84.cover.medium.jpg"
  },
  "download_count": 49213
}

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