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ForgeMesh Library — Cooking & Drinking Shelf
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ForgeMesh Library — Cooking & Drinking 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 on cooking and drinking topics, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Cooking & Drinking — 423 public-domain books including Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines, The Suffrage Cook Book, The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery. 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 Cooking & Drinking category (up to 50 entries), each with metadata such as title and author, plus drill-down route URLs for retrieving full text of individual books. The corpus includes 423 titles such as 'Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines,' 'The Suffrage Cook Book,' and 'The Accomplisht Cook.'
Example use cases
Discovering vintage wine literature
“Pull up to 20 public-domain books about wine and champagne from the cooking and drinking shelf so I can find historical texts on sparkling wines.”
Browsing suffrage-era food writing
“List the public-domain cookbooks on the cooking and drinking shelf — I'm researching early 20th-century food culture and want to see everything available, up to 50 books.”
Building a culinary reading list
“Give me the top 25 classic public-domain cooking and drinking books from ForgeMesh so I can put together a reading list on historical culinary arts.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/cooking-drinkingWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked list of public-domain books specifically in the cooking and drinking domain, without requiring an API key or license. Prefer it over full-text search when you want to browse the entire shelf rather than search for specific passages or topics. It is ideal for building reading lists, discovering historical culinary literature, or feeding downstream full-text retrieval calls.
Side effects
- limit exceeds maximum of 50 — may return error or be clamped
- limit set to 0 or negative — may return empty list or error
- payment not processed — x402 payment required before response is returned
- service temporarily unavailable — standard HTTP 5xx error
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": "Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines",
"author": "Vizetelly, Henry",
"book_id": 20889,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 10940
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Cooking & Drinking",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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