Gutendex · Schema

Book

Metadata for a single Project Gutenberg ebook.

BooksCatalogEbooksLibraryLiteratureMetadataOpen-SourceProject GutenbergPublic APIsPublic Domain

Properties

Name Type Description
id integer Project Gutenberg ID number of the book.
title stringnull Title of the book.
authors array People credited as authors of the book.
summaries array Plain-text summaries of the book.
editors array People credited as editors of the book.
translators array People credited as translators of the book.
subjects array Library of Congress subject headings assigned to the book.
bookshelves array Project Gutenberg bookshelves containing the book.
languages array Two-character ISO language codes of the book content.
copyright booleannull Copyright status: true if copyrighted, false if public domain in the USA, null if unknown.
media_type string Media type of the work (for example Text, Sound, Image).
formats object
download_count integer Number of times the book has been downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
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JSON Schema

gutendex-book-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "title": "Book",
  "type": "object",
  "description": "Metadata for a single Project Gutenberg ebook.",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Project Gutenberg ID number of the book."
    },
    "title": {
      "type": ["string", "null"],
      "description": "Title of the book."
    },
    "authors": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "People credited as authors of the book.",
      "items": { "$ref": "gutendex-person-schema.json" }
    },
    "summaries": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Plain-text summaries of the book.",
      "items": { "type": "string" }
    },
    "editors": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "People credited as editors of the book.",
      "items": { "$ref": "gutendex-person-schema.json" }
    },
    "translators": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "People credited as translators of the book.",
      "items": { "$ref": "gutendex-person-schema.json" }
    },
    "subjects": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Library of Congress subject headings assigned to the book.",
      "items": { "type": "string" }
    },
    "bookshelves": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Project Gutenberg bookshelves containing the book.",
      "items": { "type": "string" }
    },
    "languages": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Two-character ISO language codes of the book content.",
      "items": { "type": "string" }
    },
    "copyright": {
      "type": ["boolean", "null"],
      "description": "Copyright status: true if copyrighted, false if public domain in the USA, null if unknown."
    },
    "media_type": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Media type of the work (for example Text, Sound, Image)."
    },
    "formats": {
      "$ref": "gutendex-format-schema.json"
    },
    "download_count": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Number of times the book has been downloaded from Project Gutenberg."
    }
  }
}

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