# free-books-american-fiction

> free-books-american-fiction is a paid API for AI agents from intel.rallylive.ca, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Browse and retrieve a ranked catalogue of free public-domain American fiction books from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, with direct download links in epub/txt/html formats.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/subject/american-fiction
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/free-books-american-fiction-64fe0cb6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap__kuwY5vyYV9so3_WOrGMI

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 free-books-american-fiction-64fe0cb6
```

Example prompt: Can you show me a ranked list of free public-domain American fiction books I can download as epub or txt — maybe search for novels with 'frontier' in the title or by author Mark Twain?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, daily-verified, ranked catalogue of free public-domain American fiction with direct multi-format download links — especially when you want to filter by title keyword or author without scraping Project Gutenberg or Internet Archive directly. Prefer this over raw scraping when reliability, relevance ranking, and ease of integration matter.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for overly specific keyword combinations
- Rate limiting or payment failure for $0.01 USDC per call
- Stale or broken download links for edge-case archive items
- Empty catalogue page if page number exceeds total results

## How this service works

Free public-domain books on "American fiction": browse the catalogue's works tagged with that Library of Congress subject (434 in Project Gutenberg alone, plus Internet Archive scans), ranked by relevance and popularity, with direct epub/txt/html download links. Add words to narrow by title or author. Re-verified daily. $0.01 per page of 20.

## Output

A ranked, paginated list (20 items per page) of public-domain American fiction works, each with title, author, relevance/popularity score, Library of Congress subject tag, and direct download links in epub, txt, and/or html formats. Results are re-verified daily.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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