# ForgeMesh Library – Sports & Hobbies Shelf

> ForgeMesh Library – Sports & Hobbies 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 in the Sports/Hobbies category, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/sports-hobbies
- 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-sports-hobbies-shelf-825966fe
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_MAr14G5sl9OuBpbRoClWQ

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-sports-hobbies-shelf-825966fe -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up a list of public-domain books on sports and hobbies from the ForgeMesh library — give me the top 20 results with links so I can read more about each one?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked catalog of public-domain sports and hobbies books and want drill-down routes for full-text access. Prefer this over a full-text search endpoint when you want to browse the entire shelf rather than search for a specific passage or topic.

## Known failure modes

- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient (x402 protocol error)
- Request exceeds max limit of 50 — clamped or rejected
- Empty result set if catalog is temporarily unavailable
- Network timeout on the POST request

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Sports/Hobbies — 596 public-domain books including The Horsewoman: A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed., Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration, Auction of To-day. 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 book entries in the Sports/Hobbies category, each with a title and a drill-down route that can be used to retrieve the full text of that 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 Horsewoman: A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.",
    "author": "Hayes, Alice M.",
    "book_id": 26318,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 14583
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Sports/Hobbies",
  "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-sports-hobbies-shelf-825966fe/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)