Gutendex · Example Payload

Gutendex List Books Example

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Gutendex List Books Example is an example object payload from Gutendex, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

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Example Payload

{
  "count": 76283,
  "next": "https://gutendex.com/books/?page=2",
  "previous": null,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 1342,
      "title": "Pride and Prejudice",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Austen, Jane",
          "birth_year": 1775,
          "death_year": 1817
        }
      ],
      "summaries": [
        "Pride and Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved novels in the English language."
      ],
      "translators": [],
      "subjects": [
        "Courtship -- Fiction",
        "England -- Fiction",
        "Love stories",
        "Sisters -- Fiction",
        "Social classes -- Fiction",
        "Young women -- Fiction"
      ],
      "bookshelves": [
        "Best Books Ever Listings",
        "Harvard Classics"
      ],
      "languages": ["en"],
      "copyright": false,
      "media_type": "Text",
      "formats": {
        "text/html": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.html.images",
        "application/epub+zip": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.epub3.images",
        "application/x-mobipocket-ebook": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.kf8.images",
        "text/plain; charset=us-ascii": "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1342/1342-0.txt",
        "image/jpeg": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342.cover.medium.jpg"
      },
      "download_count": 78213
    }
  ]
}