# free-books-country-life

> free-books-country-life 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).

Returns a paginated catalogue of free public-domain books tagged with the 'Country life' Library of Congress subject, with download links, ranked by relevance and popularity.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/subject/country-life
- 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-country-life-c9cad722
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_8isNEGfZnWZsNKeg3xoha

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-country-life-c9cad722
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up a list of free public-domain books about country life — something like classic rural or pastoral literature I can download as epub or txt?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need free, public-domain books on rural or pastoral themes (country life, farming, village life) and want pre-curated, popularity-ranked results with direct download links from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive. Prefer this over general web search when you want vetted, legally free ebooks with structured metadata rather than raw search results.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if keyword filter is too restrictive or misspelled
- Payment failure if USDC funds are insufficient for the $0.01 per call fee
- Stale or broken download links if a source removes the book between daily verifications
- Empty page if requested page number exceeds total available results

## How this service works

Free public-domain books on "Country life": browse the catalogue's works tagged with that Library of Congress subject (296 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 books tagged with the Library of Congress 'Country life' subject, sourced from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive. Each entry includes the book title, author, relevance and popularity ranking, and direct download links in epub, txt, and/or html formats. Results are re-verified daily. Supports optional keyword filtering by title or author.

## 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

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/free-books-country-life-c9cad722/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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