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ForgeMesh Library – Western Stories Shelf
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ForgeMesh Library – Western 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 2026-09-13).
Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain Western fiction books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Western stories — 695 public-domain books including The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California, That Girl Montana, 'Firebrand' Trevison. 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 Western fiction books, each with a title (e.g. 'The Treasure of Pearls', 'That Girl Montana', ''Firebrand' Trevison') and drill-down routes that can be followed to retrieve the full text of each book.
Example use cases
Browsing classic frontier adventure novels
“I want to find some old public-domain Western adventure stories to read — can you pull up a list of up to 20 titles from the Western fiction shelf?”
Building a reading list for a literature class
“I'm putting together a reading list of classic American Western fiction — can you get me the top 50 public-domain Western novels available on the ForgeMesh library shelf?”
Researching California Gold Rush era fiction
“I'm looking for public-domain novels set in the American West, especially adventure romances from the California era — can you browse the Western stories shelf and show me what's available?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/western-storiesWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, ranked browsing experience across 695 public-domain Western fiction titles specifically, rather than a full-text keyword search across the entire corpus. Ideal for discovering or listing Western genre books without a specific title in mind.
Side effects
- Invalid limit value (e.g. exceeds 50 or is negative) may return an error or be clamped
- Payment failure via x402 protocol results in 402 response with no book list returned
- Service unavailability returns a 5xx error with no data
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": "The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California",
"author": "Aimard, Gustave",
"book_id": 46276,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 45520
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Western stories",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
x402
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