# Free Public-Domain American Short Stories Catalogue

> Free Public-Domain American Short Stories 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).

Browse and download free public-domain books tagged 'Short stories, American' from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, ranked by relevance and popularity, with epub/txt/html download links.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/subject/short-stories-american
- 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-public-domain-american-short-stories-catalogue-bc622227
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_1X607dUSEBOk8oqXmdlu6

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-public-domain-american-short-stories-catalogue-bc622227
```

Example prompt: Can you find me a list of free public-domain American short story books I can download — maybe filter it to ones by O. Henry if possible?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to discover or download free, legal, public-domain American short story books specifically tagged under the Library of Congress 'Short stories, American' subject — particularly when you want ranked results with direct download links across multiple formats (epub, txt, html) and sources (Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive). Prefer this over general web search when you need curated, re-verified library catalogue results rather than arbitrary web pages.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if search query terms match no titles or authors in the catalogue
- Rate limiting or payment failure if the x402 micropayment of $0.01 per call is not processed
- Stale or broken download links if a source (Project Gutenberg/Internet Archive) has changed the file location since the last daily re-verification
- Empty page returned if requested page number exceeds available results

## How this service works

Free public-domain books on "Short stories, American": browse the catalogue's works tagged with that Library of Congress subject (368 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 results per page) of public-domain books tagged with the Library of Congress subject 'Short stories, American', each entry including title, author, relevance/popularity ranking, and direct download links in epub, txt, and/or html formats. Results are re-verified daily and sourced from Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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    },
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    },
    "queryParams": {
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     "properties": {}
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   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
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   "properties": {
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    "example": {
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}
```

## More

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