# free-books-sea-stories

> free-books-sea-stories 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 sea-story books from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, ranked by relevance and popularity, with optional title/author filtering.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/subject/sea-stories
- 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-sea-stories-6d89b553
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_twy30UatwWTJRscot6Oba

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-sea-stories-6d89b553
```

Example prompt: Can you find me a list of free public-domain sea story books I can download — maybe filter for anything by Joseph Conrad?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, daily-verified catalogue of free public-domain sea and nautical fiction with direct download links. It is preferable to raw Project Gutenberg scraping because it aggregates multiple sources (including Internet Archive), ranks by popularity, and supports keyword filtering — all in a single paginated API call.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if search keywords are too narrow or misspelled
- Pagination out of range returns empty result set
- Download links may be temporarily unavailable if upstream source (Project Gutenberg/Internet Archive) is down
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.01 per page fee

## How this service works

Free public-domain books on "Sea stories": browse the catalogue's works tagged with that Library of Congress subject (400 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 catalogue of up to 20 public-domain sea-story books per page, including titles, authors, relevance/popularity rankings, and direct download links in epub, txt, and/or html formats, sourced from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive and 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-sea-stories-6d89b553/health.json
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