# BookBot Book Finder

> BookBot Book Finder is a paid API for AI agents from www.book-bot.app, paid per call via x402, $0.5/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Search and discover books from a vast digital archive and return a download link to the ebook file

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://www.book-bot.app/api/books/find
- Price: $0.5/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/bookbot-book-finder-4c2d46f0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_-zNgBHGvxiYiUZW6YyxCk

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability bookbot-book-finder-4c2d46f0 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you find me a downloadable epub of 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald using BookBot?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to find and retrieve a downloadable ebook (epub) for a specific title or author, especially when leveraging AI-assisted search across a large digital archive. Prefer this over manual archive searches when you want a direct download link returned programmatically.

## Known failure modes

- Book not found in archive — returns empty or null URL
- Ambiguous title matches multiple books — may return wrong edition
- Archive source unavailable — request times out or returns error
- Payment failure — $0.50 USDC not processed, request rejected

## How this service works

Search and discover books from a vast digital archive. Get any book with AI-powered assistance.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing a URL string pointing to a downloadable epub file of the requested book, e.g. {"text": "https://example.com/download/book.epub"}

## Example request

```json
{
 "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald",
 "format": "epub",
 "bookName": "The Great Gatsby"
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "author": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "The author of the book (optional)."
  },
  "bookName": {
   "type": "string",
   "minLength": 1,
   "description": "The title of the book to search for."
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "text": "https://example.com/download/the-great-gatsby.epub"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/bookbot-book-finder-4c2d46f0/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from www.book-bot.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/www.book-bot.app/llms.txt)