Project Gutenberg MCP Server

Project Gutenberg MCP is an MCP integration. Read Project Gutenberg books via MCP. Search, fetch metadata, and retrieve text in passages.

Packages and local setup

The published oci package is roberthouse224/project-gutenberg-mcp:1.2.0. Its declared MCP transport is stdio.

The package declares GUTENBERG_BASE_URL (required): Base URL of your Gutenberg mirror. Run the mirror from the mirror/ directory and point this at it. See the README for setup instructions.; GUTENBERG_TOOLS (required): Comma-separated list of tools to expose. Available: search_books, get_book_metadata, fetch_book_text, list_passages, get_passage; GUTENBERG_BOOK_ID: Project Gutenberg book ID to use as the default for all tools. Find IDs via search_books. Example: 2680 for Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.; GUTENBERG_CHUNK_SIZE: Size in bytes of each passage returned by get_passage.; GUTENBERG_LANGUAGE: Default ISO 639-1 language code filter for search_books. Used when the caller omits the language parameter..

This package has launch arguments in its registry record. Use the maintainer’s configuration for those arguments rather than launching it with only the package name.

Before connecting

Check the maintainer’s instructions for account access, authentication and the supported client configuration. Once connected, inspect the tools your client receives and try a small task that matches the server’s stated purpose. The registry description does not include a verified, complete tool list.

Project and source

View the publisher’s registry entry · Project repository · Project website. This profile uses version 1.2.0 from the registry. Registration identifies the publisher namespace; it does not establish that this is a first-party integration for every service it connects.

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