# ForgeMesh Library – British History Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library – British History 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 British history books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/history-british
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-british-history-shelf-b0e9aec4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap__ibH35k_Tq3O-WqEipK53

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 forgemesh-library-british-history-shelf-b0e9aec4 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up a list of public-domain British history books from the ForgeMesh library — give me up to 30 results with links I can use to read the full texts?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked catalog of public-domain British history books with ready-made drill-down routes for full-text access — particularly when no API key or license is required, cost-per-call pricing is acceptable, and the user is interested specifically in British or English historical texts rather than general world history or other genres.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid limit value (e.g. exceeding 50 or non-integer) may return a validation error
- Payment failure via x402 protocol will block access to results
- Endpoint may return fewer than requested books if the shelf has fewer than the requested limit
- Network or service unavailability returns a generic HTTP error

## How this service works

Curated shelf: History - British — 3134 public-domain books including The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes, A Little English Gallery, The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of British history public-domain books (up to 50 entries), each including the book title, author, and a drill-down route (URL path) for full-text retrieval. No authentication or licensing is required to access the results.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes",
    "author": "Dalton, Charles",
    "book_id": 51143,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 41633
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "History - British",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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