openzim/gutenberg

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Scraper for downloading the entire ebooks repository of project Gutenberg

Stars: 173
Forks: 59
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 23
Avg merge: 14h 17m
Merged PRs (30d): 34

Dominant language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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23 open issues indexed

Gutenberg: deduplicate cover images Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

openzim/gutenberg#581 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Upgrade to Vuetify 4 Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/gutenberg#575 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Add space before the ellipsis to avoid four consecutive dots Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

openzim/gutenberg#562 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
Extract generic EPUB and PDF cover extraction helpers Open

core-scraper enhancement good first issue source-scraper

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

openzim/gutenberg#554 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Move shared HTML reader controls out of the Gutenberg source Open

core-scraper enhancement good first issue source-scraper

openzim/gutenberg#553 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Introduce a source-agnostic EPUB and image optimization engine Open

core-scraper enhancement source-scraper

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

openzim/gutenberg#552 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Update CONTRIBUTING.md Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

openzim/gutenberg#540 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Add "Bibliothèque numérique romande" as a new source Open

source-scraper

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

openzim/gutenberg#527 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Rename Gutenberg / gutenberg2zim to Papers / papers2zim Open

question task

openzim/gutenberg#526 · 16 comments · 5 assignees · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Create an About Kiwix page Open

task

openzim/gutenberg#524 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Add more info on authors (picture, bio, ...) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/gutenberg#513 · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Do we need to cache optimized ePub and HTML images? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/gutenberg#417 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 10, 2026
Better display of author view with books in differents languages Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/gutenberg#361 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 28, 2025
With the "mul" ZIM, what if we have the same title (unstranlated) in many languages? Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/gutenberg#349 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 2, 2025
Remove UI language selection if only books in one language Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

openzim/gutenberg#347 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 2, 2025
Add support for full-text index in ZIMs with multiple language Open

bug upstream

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/gutenberg#329 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 16, 2025
What should we do for Mayan and Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas languages Open

bug question

openzim/gutenberg#322 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 13, 2025
Handling the "Frequently downloaded" list Open

enhancement question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/gutenberg#271 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 13, 2025
Do not force the presence of HTML format for all books Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openzim/gutenberg#161 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 19, 2023
Offline version of litterature-jeunesse-libre.fr Open

stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

openzim/gutenberg#100 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 24, 2019
Consider a better support of ZIM files without books in HTML Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzim/gutenberg#95 · 15 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2019
New architecture plan Open

openzim/gutenberg#94 · 9 comments · 3 assignees · Opened Nov 12, 2019
Support Wikisource EPUB import Open

enhancement stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzim/gutenberg#93 · 10 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2019

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