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library.forgemesh.io Travel Writing Shelf
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library.forgemesh.io Travel Writing Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain travel writing books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Travel Writing — 3045 public-domain books including The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Life on the Mississippi, The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of public-domain travel writing books (up to the requested limit, default 20, max 50), each entry including the book title, author, historical popularity rank, and a drill-down route URL for full-text retrieval via subsequent calls.
Example use cases
Sourcing classic travel memoirs for research
“I'm researching 19th-century American travel writing — can you pull the ranked list of public-domain travel books from the forgemesh library, up to 25 titles, so I can see what's available and find the ones I want to read in full?”
Finding Mark Twain travel titles
“I want to know if Roughing It and The Innocents Abroad are in the forgemesh travel writing shelf — can you fetch that list and show me all the titles so I can spot them?”
Building a travel literature reading list
“Put together a reading list from the forgemesh public-domain travel writing collection — grab all 50 books in ranked order and give me the titles, authors, and links to get the full text.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/travel-writingWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-ranked catalog of public-domain travel writing books specifically, and want fast access to titles and drill-down routes without requiring any authentication or license. Prefer it over generic book search APIs when you want only public-domain travel literature with guaranteed free-to-use texts.
Side effects
- limit out of range (>50) returns an error or is clamped
- network or payment failure returns no results
- endpoint unavailable returns 5xx error
- payment of 0.003 USDC not processed returns 402
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 Expedition of Humphry Clinker",
"author": "Smollett, T. (Tobias)",
"book_id": 2160,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 42470
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Travel Writing",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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