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Library ForgeMesh – Children's Periodicals (American) Shelf
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Library ForgeMesh – Children's Periodicals (American) Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain American children's periodicals (including St. Nicholas Magazine issues) with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Children's periodicals, American — 180 public-domain books including St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 08, June 1878 Scribner's Illustrated, St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9, St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of public-domain American children's periodicals (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50), including titles such as St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, along with drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve full text for each item.
Example use cases
Researching vintage children's magazines
“I'm researching 19th-century American children's literature — can you get me a list of public-domain children's periodicals from the ForgeMesh library, up to 50 titles?”
Finding St. Nicholas Magazine issues
“Can you browse the ForgeMesh library shelf for American children's periodicals and find what issues of St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls are available?”
Building a children's literature reading list
“I want to put together a reading list of classic American children's magazines from the public domain — can you fetch up to 20 titles from the ForgeMesh children's periodicals shelf?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/children-s-periodicals-americanWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you specifically need to browse or list American children's periodicals from the public domain, particularly historical titles like St. Nicholas Magazine. Prefer this over a full-text search endpoint when you want a curated, ranked shelf overview rather than passage-level retrieval, and when you need drill-down routes to navigate to individual titles.
Side effects
- Limit exceeds maximum of 50 — server may return an error or clamp to 50
- Payment of $0.003 USDC not fulfilled — 402 Payment Required response
- Network timeout if the corpus index is temporarily unavailable
- Empty result set if the shelf has no indexed items matching the category
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max books to return (default 20, max 50) |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"books": [
{
"year": null,
"title": "St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 08, June 1878 Scribner's Illustrated",
"author": "Various",
"book_id": 16123,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 799
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Children's periodicals, American",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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