# ForgeMesh Library – Western Stories Shelf

> 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.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/western-stories
- 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-western-stories-shelf-49ef8810
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_zU556K9BihT75sbZwuhvX

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-western-stories-shelf-49ef8810 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the curated Western stories shelf and show me up to 30 public-domain Western books I can read?

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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.

## 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 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"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-western-stories-shelf-49ef8810/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)