# free-books-pirates

> free-books-pirates 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 download free public-domain books tagged with the 'Pirates' Library of Congress subject from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, ranked by relevance and popularity with direct epub/txt/html links.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/subject/pirates
- 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-pirates-ab2e3734
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ISjsuG1a-8uwmR764ylYL

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-pirates-ab2e3734
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the catalogue of free public-domain pirate books from Project Gutenberg — I want to see what's available to download as epub or txt, maybe filtered to books by Robert Louis Stevenson?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, daily-verified catalogue of public-domain pirate-themed books with direct download links, especially when you want relevance and popularity rankings across both Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive. Prefer this over generic web search when you need structured ebook metadata and reliable epub/txt download URLs rather than raw search results.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if keyword filter is too restrictive or misspelled
- Empty catalogue page if page number exceeds available results
- Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 USDC payment is not completed
- Stale or broken download links for rarely-accessed Internet Archive scans
- Network timeout on catalogue re-verification cycles

## How this service works

Free public-domain books on "Pirates": browse the catalogue's works tagged with that Library of Congress subject (211 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 paginated list (20 per page) of public-domain books tagged with the 'Pirates' Library of Congress subject, including title, author, relevance and popularity rankings, and direct download links in epub, txt, and html formats. Results are re-verified daily and sourced from Project Gutenberg (211+ works) and Internet Archive scans.

## 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-pirates-ab2e3734/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)