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library.forgemesh.io Moby-Dick Passage Retrieval
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library.forgemesh.io Moby-Dick Passage Retrieval is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Retrieves the most relevant verbatim passages from Moby-Dick in response to a natural-language question, with chapter and location citations.
Price / call$0.01
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Ask a question about Moby-Dick and get back the most relevant passages from the book itself, with chapter and location citations. Retrieval only — full-text search, not a generated summary or answer. No license, no API key required.
Output
Returns a ranked list of verbatim text passages from Moby-Dick that best match the question, each accompanied by chapter name or number and location within the book. No AI-generated summaries or paraphrases — raw source text only.
Example use cases
Literary quote research for essay
“Find me up to 8 passages from Moby-Dick where Ishmael reflects on mortality or fate — I need the exact text and chapter references for a paper I'm writing.”
Chatbot grounded on classic text
“Search Moby-Dick for the most relevant passages about the relationship between Captain Ahab and Starbuck, give me the top 5 with citations so I can quote them accurately.”
Trivia fact-checking from source
“Look up what Moby-Dick actually says about the color white — find the 3 most relevant passages from the book itself with chapter locations.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/ask-moby-dickWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need verbatim, citable passages from Moby-Dick specifically — not a summary or AI-generated answer. Ideal when grounding a response in the actual source text matters (academic citation, quote verification, literary analysis). Prefer over a general LLM answer when you need exact chapter-and-location provenance from the original Melville text.
Side effects
- Question too vague to retrieve meaningful passages — returns low-relevance results
- limit parameter exceeds 15 — likely capped or returns error
- Empty or missing question field — likely returns validation error
- Very short or ambiguous queries may surface loosely related passages
- Payment failure (x402) — call rejected before processing
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max passages (default 5, max 15) |
| question | string | Your question about the book, e.g. "what does Ahab say about the whale?" |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"count": 3,
"title": "Moby Dick; or, the Whale",
"author": "Melville, Herman, 1819-1891",
"method": "full-text retrieval — returns the most relevant passages from the book for your question; no summarization or generation",
"book_id": 2701,
"passages": [
{
"text": "…that inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the [white] [whale] agent, or be the [white] [whale] principal, I will wreak that hate upon him…",
"chapter": 36,
"location": "chapter 36, passage #612"
}
],
"question": "what does Ahab say about the white whale"
}
}Tags
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