# Free Books in English (Project Gutenberg & Internet Archive)

> Free Books in English (Project Gutenberg & Internet Archive) 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 list of free public-domain and free-licensed English-language books from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, with download links, searchable by title, author, or subject.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/language/en
- 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-in-english-project-gutenberg-internet-archive-fc1a843f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_zI8AAjWILpwoDZ-Z-unBf

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-in-english-project-gutenberg-internet-archive-fc1a843f
```

Example prompt: Can you find me a list of the most popular free English books available to download — I'm particularly interested in classic novels by Jane Austen, and I'd like epub or txt download links if possible.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to discover or download free, public-domain or free-licensed English-language books, especially when sourcing from Project Gutenberg or Internet Archive. Prefer this over general web search when you want structured book metadata with direct download links, daily-verified availability, and popularity-ranked results.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if search query matches no titles, authors, or subjects in the index
- Pagination beyond available results returns empty list
- Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 micropayment is not properly handled
- Stale results possible if daily re-verification has not yet run for a given day

## How this service works

Free books in English: public-domain and free-licensed English-language works from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive with download links (epub, txt, html, scans), most popular first; add words to search within English titles, authors and subjects. Re-verified daily. $0.01 per page of 20.

## Output

A paginated list (20 books per page) of free English-language works, sorted by popularity, including book title, author, subjects, and download links in formats such as epub, txt, html, and scanned images. Data is re-verified daily against Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive.

## 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"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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