# ForgeMesh Library – Mythology, Legends & Folklore Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library – Mythology, Legends & Folklore 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 84 public-domain books in the mythology, legends, and folklore genre (including Beowulf, Grimms' Fairy Tales, and The Iliad), with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/mythology-legends-folklore
- 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-mythology-legends-folklore-shelf-4aa96059
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Ssow8PpYzgNaov3n0wZye

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-mythology-legends-folklore-shelf-4aa96059 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull me a list of public-domain mythology, legends, and folklore books from the ForgeMesh library — give me the top 30 results with links to read them?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-ranked catalog of public-domain mythology, legends, and folklore texts without needing to build or maintain your own index. Ideal for agents surfacing reading recommendations, seeding content pipelines, or providing bibliographic data for research — especially when no API key or license is desired and a small per-call micropayment is acceptable.

## Known failure modes

- Requesting more than 50 books in a single call may be rejected or clamped to the maximum
- Network or payment failure (x402 micropayment not processed) results in no data returned
- Malformed limit parameter (e.g. non-integer) may cause a validation error

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Mythology, Legends & Folklore — 2463 public-domain books including The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10), King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Four Arthurian Romances. 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 84 public-domain mythology, legends, and folklore books (default 20, max 50 per call), each entry including title information and drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license or API key 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 Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)",
    "author": "Unknown",
    "book_id": 51252,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 62488
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Mythology, Legends & Folklore",
  "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-mythology-legends-folklore-shelf-4aa96059/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)