# free-books-english-wit-and-humor

> free-books-english-wit-and-humor 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 paginated catalogue of free public-domain books tagged 'English wit and humor' from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, with download links.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/subject/english-wit-and-humor
- 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-english-wit-and-humor-9773dc1b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_zt4N0Vsu3Vc8nYGBv1Jet

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-english-wit-and-humor-9773dc1b
```

Example prompt: Can you show me the first page of free public-domain English wit and humor books? I'm especially interested in anything by Jerome K. Jerome.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, daily-refreshed catalogue of free English wit and humor books specifically, with direct download links and relevance ranking. Prefer it over generic web search when you want clean structured bibliographic results ready for download, especially from Project Gutenberg or Internet Archive.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if the keyword filter matches no titles or authors in the catalogue
- Pagination beyond available pages returns an empty result set
- Upstream Project Gutenberg or Internet Archive unavailability may cause stale or missing entries
- Payment failure (x402) results in no response being returned

## How this service works

Free public-domain books on "English wit and humor": browse the catalogue's works tagged with that Library of Congress subject (667 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 'English wit and humor', including title, author, relevance/popularity score, and direct download links in epub, txt, and/or html formats. Data is re-verified daily.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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 "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-english-wit-and-humor-9773dc1b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from intel.rallylive.ca](https://www.zero.xyz/host/intel.rallylive.ca/llms.txt)