# ForgeMesh Library – Christmas Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library – Christmas 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 Christmas-themed books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/christmas
- 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-christmas-shelf-e2d3c8e8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ABTpja8gxNj-mbuKRuCzd

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-christmas-shelf-e2d3c8e8 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the top 10 classic public-domain Christmas books from the ForgeMesh library — things like A Christmas Carol and Twas the Night Before Christmas?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked list of public-domain Christmas or holiday-themed books without any licensing overhead. Prefer this over a general web search when you specifically want classic literature texts with drill-down full-text access, or when building a reading app, holiday content feature, or literature agent that needs structured book metadata rather than raw search results.

## Known failure modes

- limit parameter exceeds 50 — likely returns an error or clamps to max
- limit set to 0 or negative — may return empty list or validation error
- network or payment failure (x402 micropayment not processed) — request rejected before data is returned
- service temporarily unavailable — 5xx error with no book data

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Christmas — 139 public-domain books including The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House, A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries. 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 Christmas books (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50), each entry including the book title, author, rank, and a drill-down route that can be used to retrieve the full text of the book. No authentication or license is required.

## 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 Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House",
    "author": "Frey, Hildegard G.",
    "book_id": 38983,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 37267
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Christmas",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-christmas-shelf-e2d3c8e8/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from library.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/library.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)