Gutenberg eBook API
Free eBook data is sourced from the gutenberg project

A sample call is as follows

http://api.ebookupload.co.uk/?q=dickens

This returns JSON in the following format:

[ {"id":"25854","text":"The Letters of Charles Dickens, by Charles Dickens 25854"}]

Where id refers to an the path within the gutenberg website:

• HTML - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25854/25854-h/25854-h.htm
• EPub With Images - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25854.epub.images
• EPub Without Images - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25854.epub.noimages
• Kindle (with images) - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25854.kindle.images
• Kindle (no images) - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25854.kindle.noimages
• Plucker - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25854.plucker
• QiOO Mobile - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25854.qioo
• Plain Text UTF-8 - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25854.txt.utf-8

 

Uploaded ebook data

To access an uploaded ebook, call

http://www.ebookupload.co.uk/read.aspx?id=12345

where 12345 is the upload reference, this returns JSON containing links to the ebook in HTML format, which must be prefixed with http://www.ebookupload.co.uk/uploads/