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ForgeMesh Library — Animal Shelf
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ForgeMesh Library — Animal Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain books in the Animal subject category, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Animal — 242 public-domain books including Wild Animals at Home, Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos., Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 4 April, 1897. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of public-domain books in the Animal subject category (up to 50 entries by default 20), each with metadata and drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve the full text of individual books.
Example use cases
Researching historical wildlife literature
“I'm working on a project about historical perceptions of wild animals — can you fetch me up to 50 public-domain books on the topic from the animal shelf so I can see what classic texts are available?”
Discovering classic ornithology texts
“I'm looking for old public-domain books specifically about birds — can you browse the animal collection and show me what's there, say the top 20 results?”
Finding bovine natural history classics
“Are there any public-domain books about cattle, bison, or buffalo I could read for free? Pull up the animal library shelf and show me what comes up.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/animalWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need to browse or enumerate public-domain books specifically categorized under the Animal subject, especially for natural history, wildlife, ornithology, or zoology topics. Prefer this over the full-text search endpoint when you want a curated ranked list of titles rather than passage-level search results. Choose this over other shelf endpoints when the topic is specifically animals or natural history rather than general literature, history, or other subject areas.
Side effects
- limit exceeds max of 50 — endpoint may return an error or clamp to 50
- limit set to 0 or negative — may return empty list or validation error
- payment not processed correctly via x402 — endpoint returns 402 Payment Required
- network timeout on POST request
- shelf may return fewer than requested books if fewer than limit exist in the corpus
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max books to return (default 20, max 50) |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"books": [
{
"year": null,
"title": "Wild Animals at Home",
"author": "Seton, Ernest Thompson",
"book_id": 27887,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 8349
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Animal",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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