# Free Books French Fiction Catalogue

> Free Books French Fiction Catalogue 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 French fiction books from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, ranked by relevance and popularity, with download links.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/subject/french-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-french-fiction-catalogue-42e9bd87
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_AOTrkHhtzcqCv5pjFZzWP

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-french-fiction-catalogue-42e9bd87
```

Example prompt: Can you browse the free public-domain French fiction catalogue and show me the most popular titles available to download as epub or txt?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, relevance-ranked list of free public-domain French fiction with verified download links, especially if you want epub/txt/html access without scraping Gutenberg directly. Ideal for agents building reading lists, literature research tools, or automated ebook downloaders focused on French literary works.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for a narrow keyword filter (empty catalogue response)
- Payment failure if x402 micropayment of $0.01 USDC is not completed
- Upstream Project Gutenberg or Internet Archive data temporarily unavailable
- Invalid query parameters causing malformed request

## How this service works

Free public-domain books on "French fiction": browse the catalogue's works tagged with that Library of Congress subject (1,191 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 page of up to 20 French fiction titles from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, each entry including the book title, author, relevance and popularity ranking, 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

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/free-books-french-fiction-catalogue-42e9bd87/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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