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library.forgemesh.io American Periodicals Shelf
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library.forgemesh.io American Periodicals 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 148 public-domain American periodical books (including Atlantic Monthly volumes) with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: American periodicals — 148 public-domain books including The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of up to 148 public-domain American periodical books (default 20, max 50 per call), including titles such as Atlantic Monthly volumes, along with drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve full text for each title.
Example use cases
Browsing Atlantic Monthly archive
“Pull up the list of Atlantic Monthly issues and other American periodicals in the public domain — I want to see all of them, up to 50 results, so I can pick which volumes to read.”
Researching 19th century American journalism
“I'm researching 19th century American literary journalism — can you fetch me the full catalog of public-domain American periodicals from that library, up to 50 titles?”
Building a reading list from old magazines
“I'd like to put together a reading list from classic American magazines. Grab the top 20 public-domain American periodicals from the forgemesh library and list them for me.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/american-periodicalsWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you specifically need to browse or catalog public-domain American periodicals (especially Atlantic Monthly volumes and similar 19th-century magazines). Prefer this over the full-text search endpoint when you want a structured catalog list rather than passage retrieval, and over other library.forgemesh.io shelves when the user's interest is specifically American periodical literature rather than fiction, classics, or other genres.
Side effects
- limit parameter exceeds 50 — API may reject or cap at 50
- Payment of $0.003 USDC not processed — request fails with 402
- No results returned if the shelf index is temporarily unavailable
- Drill-down routes returned may point to additional paid endpoints
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": "The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics",
"author": "Various",
"book_id": 28630,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 7022
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "American periodicals",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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