# ForgeMesh Library – Love Stories Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library – Love Stories Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain love story books (e.g. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Anthem) with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/love-stories
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-love-stories-shelf-9a430808
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DqfTNDVtvhTfR40FZkoO9

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-love-stories-shelf-9a430808 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Show me up to 30 public-domain love stories from the ForgeMesh library — I want the ranked list with links so I can dig into the full text of any book that looks interesting.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked list of public-domain romance and love story books with immediate drill-down access to full texts, at a flat low cost per call and with no API key or licensing overhead. Prefer it over generic book search APIs when you specifically want pre-curated classic romantic fiction that is guaranteed to be freely usable.

## Known failure modes

- Limit parameter exceeds maximum of 50 — may return an error or be capped
- Limit set to 0 or a negative integer — may return empty list or validation error
- Service temporarily unavailable — HTTP 5xx response
- Payment of 0.003 USDC not successfully processed via x402 — request blocked

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Love stories — 823 public-domain books including Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch, Sense and Sensibility. 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 public-domain love story books including title, author, and drill-down routes that can be followed to retrieve the full text of each work. No licensing or API key is required to access the content.

## 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": "Pride and Prejudice",
    "author": "Austen, Jane",
    "book_id": 1342,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 136926
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Love stories",
  "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-love-stories-shelf-9a430808/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)