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library.forgemesh.io HD Shelf
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library.forgemesh.io HD 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 191 public-domain books in the HD (Economics/Sociology) Library of Congress category, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.
Price / call$0.003
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: HD — 191 public-domain books including Cartels : $b challenge to a free world, The Toilers of the Field, The Settlement of Wage Disputes. 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 books in the HD Library of Congress subject category, including titles such as 'Cartels: Challenge to a Free World', 'The Toilers of the Field', and 'The Settlement of Wage Disputes', each with drill-down routes enabling full-text retrieval of individual books.
Example use cases
Researching antitrust and cartel history
“Pull up the full list of public-domain books on the HD shelf — I want to find classic texts about cartels and monopolies for a research paper on antitrust history.”
Exploring labor economics classics
“Give me up to 50 books from the forgemesh HD shelf so I can browse public-domain titles on wage disputes and labor economics for a course I'm putting together.”
Building a reading list on economic sociology
“Can you fetch me the top 20 books from the public-domain HD economics and sociology shelf? I'm building a reading list on the social dimensions of markets and work.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/hdWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you specifically want to browse or list economics, labor, sociology, or industrial-organization public-domain books classified under the Library of Congress HD category, and need a ranked, navigable list with drill-down full-text access routes rather than a keyword search across the entire corpus.
Side effects
- Requesting a limit above 50 may return only 50 results or an error
- Payment failure (x402 protocol) will block access if USDC is not provided
- Empty or malformed request body may default to limit of 20
- If the shelf index is unavailable, the endpoint may return a 5xx error
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": "Cartels : $b challenge to a free world",
"author": "Berge, Wendell",
"book_id": 78077,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 11803
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "HD",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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