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ForgeMesh Library – Science Periodicals Shelf
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ForgeMesh Library – Science 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 list of up to 211 public-domain science periodical books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Science -- Periodicals — 211 public-domain books including Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, December 1878, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873. 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 science periodical books (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50), including titles like Lippincott's Magazine issues, along with drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve full text of each item.
Example use cases
Browsing 19th century science magazines
“Can you give me a list of all the public-domain science periodicals available on the ForgeMesh library shelf — I want to see what old scientific magazines I can read for free?”
Locating specific Lippincott's Magazine issues
“I'm looking for old issues of Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science — can you pull up the full curated list from ForgeMesh and show me up to 50 results?”
Research into historical popular science writing
“I need to find 19th century popular science periodicals for a research project — can you fetch the ForgeMesh science periodicals shelf and give me the top 20 titles with links to read them?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/science-periodicalsWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need to discover or browse a curated collection of public-domain science periodicals, especially 19th-century magazines like Lippincott's. It is best for listing and navigating available titles rather than full-text search (use the sibling full-text search endpoint for passage-level queries). No API key is required and cost is minimal at $0.003 USDC per call.
Side effects
- Limit parameter exceeds 50 — API may reject or cap the result
- No results returned if corpus index is unavailable
- Payment failure if x402 USDC transaction is not completed
- Slow or empty response if the underlying library index has not been populated for this shelf
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": "Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878",
"author": "Various",
"book_id": 22250,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 4589
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Science -- Periodicals",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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