Simple script to search the accompanying GUTINDEX.ALL file by e-text number, title or author. This file is a publicly available, plain text compilation of e-books served by Project Gutenberg. Links to the latest version can be found at:
Project Gutenberg's Offline Catalogs
- From the command line, run:
python search.py {mode: etext/title/author} {search parameter}
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If there are less than 2 spaces before the e-text number, the search fails. This is in relation to the fact that some entries in the file end with a number (eg. "... Vol. 2"), and there is no other (known) way to differentiate an e-text number from that one.
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When searching by title, if the title spans more than one line, the search fails.
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When searching by author, if the author's full name breaks into a new line, or it is not the first name in a list of authors' names, the search fails.