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library.forgemesh.io – Dime Novels Shelf
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library.forgemesh.io – Dime Novels Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).
Returns a ranked, pageable list of up to 277 public-domain dime novels with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Dime novels — 277 public-domain books including Only a girl's love, The Mystery of a Turkish Bath, Addie's Husband; or, Through clouds to sunshine. 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 50 public-domain dime novel records (defaulting to 20), each with title, author, and a drill-down route for full-text retrieval. No API key or license required.
Example use cases
Browsing 19th-century pulp fiction
“Can you pull up a list of dime novels from the forgemesh library — give me up to 40 titles with links so I can pick one to read?”
Building a reading list of classic genre fiction
“I'm putting together a reading list of old-school pulp and dime novels. Grab me up to 50 titles from the forgemesh public-domain dime novels shelf.”
Researching early American popular fiction
“I'm researching the history of dime novels for a project — can you fetch the full catalog of dime novel titles from forgemesh, up to 50 books, so I can see what's available?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/dime-novelsWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated list of dime-novel titles from the public-domain forgemesh library, especially when you want to paginate or limit results before drilling into full text. Prefer it over full-text search when discovery and browsing is the goal rather than answering a specific question.
Side effects
- limit exceeds maximum of 50 — API may return an error or clamp to 50
- service unavailable or payment failure returns a 402 or 5xx error
- empty or partial results if the corpus index is temporarily unavailable
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": "Only a girl's love",
"author": "Garvice, Charles",
"book_id": 53416,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 48001
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Dime novels",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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