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Library ForgeMesh – Young Men Fiction Shelf
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Library ForgeMesh – Young Men Fiction 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 books in the 'Young men – Fiction' category, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Young men -- Fiction — 11 public-domain books including Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 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 'Young men – Fiction' category, including titles, authors, and drill-down routes that link to full-text retrieval endpoints. The list is ordered by historical popularity.
Example use cases
Curating a classic reading list
“Give me a list of the top 20 public-domain fiction books about young men — I want classic titles like Great Expectations and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man that I can read for free.”
Building a literary recommendation app
“Fetch the full shelf of young men fiction books from ForgeMesh, up to 50 titles, so I can populate my reading recommendation feature with ranked public-domain classics.”
Researching bildungsroman literature
“I'm studying coming-of-age fiction — can you get me all the public-domain young men fiction titles available, including their drill-down links so I can read the full texts?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/young-men-fictionWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-ranked list of public-domain coming-of-age or young men's fiction titles without any licensing or API-key overhead. It is ideal for discovery and browsing use cases where you want canonical classics like Dickens or Joyce surfaced immediately, with drill-down paths for full-text access. Prefer it over general web search when you need a clean, structured book list rather than unstructured web results.
Side effects
- Invalid limit value (e.g. exceeds 50) may return an error or be clamped
- Payment failure via x402 protocol returns a 402 status requiring USDC payment
- Service unavailability returns a 5xx error with no book list
- Empty result set if the shelf index is misconfigured
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": "Great Expectations",
"author": "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870",
"book_id": 1400,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 12892
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Young men -- Fiction",
"coverage": {
"target": 860,
"indexed": 860
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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