Gutenberg Search

Inspiration

The Project Gutenberg website is not pretty or easy to search books with, I wanted to have just 1 search box to find old books.

What it does

It searches Project Gutenberg's books using the Gutendex API and shows you the results, with a link to read the book in your browser. This link is not the same one as in the Project Gutenberg book 'read online', this link's page removes the header and footer text that plagues every book's page.

How we built it

It's built using plain HTML, CSS, and JS, and uses the Gutendex API.

Challenges we ran into

Finding the better alternate reader in Project Gutenberg took a while, but other than that, there were no major challenges.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I'm proud that I actually finished a project during my first hackathon!

What we learned

I learned that you cannot scrape the Gutenberg Projects' books individually, but I could mirror their entire catalog.

What's next for Gutenberg Search

I will likely add options to sort the search results differently and make some aesthetic changes.

Built With

• css
• html
• javascript