# library.forgemesh.io — DT (South Africa / Anglo-Boer War) Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io — DT (South Africa / Anglo-Boer War) 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 424 public-domain books catalogued under the DT subject heading (South Africa and Anglo-Boer War history), with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/dt
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-dt-south-africa-anglo-boer-war-shelf-c0321988
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_m0Vl0-aI0tb47R_6yynNp

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 library-forgemesh-io-dt-south-africa-anglo-boer-war-shelf-c0321988 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up a list of public-domain books about the Anglo-Boer War and South African history — give me up to 30 titles with links to read them in full?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-filtered list of public-domain books specifically about South African history and the Anglo-Boer War (DT subject heading). Prefer it over full-text search when you want a broad browsable shelf rather than keyword-matched passages, and when you need drill-down routes to subsequently fetch full texts.

## Known failure modes

- limit exceeds maximum of 50 — clamp or return error
- payment not provided or insufficient USDC — 402 Payment Required
- network timeout if corpus indexing is under maintenance
- empty or malformed request body — default limit applied or error returned

## How this service works

Curated shelf: DT — 424 public-domain books including Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre, Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902, My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of matching public-domain books (up to 50 per call, default 20) within the DT subject shelf, including titles, authors, and drill-down routes that can be used to retrieve full text for each book.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre",
    "author": "Makins, George Henry",
    "book_id": 21280,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 16027
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "DT",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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