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OpenContent Index Web Service (Score:2)
The service is a somewhat un-RESTful [gbiv.com], but it's still a useful API for searching for Gutenberg texts, as well as available titles from the Open Content Alliance [opencontentalliance.org] and more.
Oh, and a while back I wrote a CPAN module [cpan.org] for talking SRU [loc.gov], which is the protocol the service uses. SRU is a little bit like OpenSearch [opensearch.org] on crack. It's not difficult to craft the URLs yourself, so maybe just using LWP::Simple or something would work better and hide less :-)
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