# ForgeMesh Library – Home Missions Periodicals Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library – Home Missions Periodicals 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, pageable list of up to 145 public-domain Home Missions periodicals (including multiple volumes of The American Missionary) with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/home-missions-periodicals
- 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-home-missions-periodicals-shelf-e9648f92
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_qLhAppQE03vglO3zZ-fr7

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-home-missions-periodicals-shelf-e9648f92 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the list of public-domain home missions periodicals from the ForgeMesh library — show me up to 30 titles so I can see what issues of The American Missionary are available?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need to browse or enumerate the curated Home Missions periodicals shelf on ForgeMesh Library — particularly for discovering public-domain issues of The American Missionary or other 19th-century home missions publications. Prefer it over a full-text search endpoint when you want a ranked catalog overview rather than passage-level results, and over other ForgeMesh shelves when the subject matter is specifically home missions periodicals rather than fiction, classics, or other categories.

## Known failure modes

- Limit exceeds maximum of 50 — server may return an error or clamp to 50
- No books match the shelf (unlikely for a fixed curated shelf) — returns empty list
- Payment of 0.003 USDC not completed — x402 payment-required response
- Network timeout or service unavailability — connection error

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Home missions -- Periodicals — 145 public-domain books including The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 03, March, 1888, The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 7, July, 1880, The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 03, March, 1895. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 50 (default 20) public-domain home missions periodicals, including titles such as multiple volumes of The American Missionary, along with drill-down route URLs for retrieving the full text of each individual book.

## 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 American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 03, March, 1888",
    "author": "Various",
    "book_id": 11764,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 806
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Home missions -- Periodicals",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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