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Wikimedia Foundation digital library of free source texts with 500,000+ works in 70+ languages including historical documents, literary works, and government publications. Contains complete books, treaties, laws, and works in the public domain.

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GET/w/api.php

Search Wikisource for primary source texts

Parameters

limitintegeroptional

actionopensearch (stringrequired

formatjson (stringoptional

searchdocumentrequired— book, or author (string

Returns

[search_term, titles[], descriptions[], urls[]]

GET/w/api.php

Retrieve a primary source text

Parameters

proprevisions (stringoptional

actionquery (stringrequired

formatjson (stringoptional

rvpropcontent (stringoptional

titlestext title (stringrequired

Returns

pages{id, title, revisions[{content, timestamp}]}