# Saylor Innovations Public Library Lookup

> Saylor Innovations Public Library Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-17).

Looks up a public library by name and returns its description, country, coordinates, founding date, Wikipedia link, and official website sourced from Wikidata

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/libraries/lookup?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-17
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-public-library-lookup-563cd580
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yIMvJ1JEgpeQtSX-fub1i

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 saylor-innovations-public-library-lookup-563cd580
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the New York Public Library for me — I want to know when it was founded, where it's located (coordinates), and its official website?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured metadata about a named public library — especially coordinates, founding date, official website, or heritage status — and want a single clean lookup rather than scraping Wikipedia manually. It is ideal when the library is well-known enough to have a Wikidata record. Prefer alternatives if you need full-text search across library catalogs, book holdings, or library branch hours.

## Known failure modes

- Library name not found in Wikidata — returns found: false with empty or null fields
- Ambiguous name matching multiple libraries — primary result may be incorrect; other_matches array contains alternatives
- Wikidata record exists but lacks some fields — returns null for inception, official_website, or description
- Name misspellings or alternate transliterations may fail to match
- Very new or obscure libraries may not yet have Wikidata entries

## How this service works

Public library lookup - description, country, coordinates, founding date and website (Wikidata)

## Output

A JSON object indicating whether the lookup found a match, with the library's canonical name, Wikidata ID, short description, location object (country and coordinates), inception/founding date, official website URL, Wikipedia article URL, architects, heritage designations, and an array of lower-ranked alternative matches if the query was ambiguous. A caveat field may flag data quality issues.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH",
      "DELETE",
      "HEAD"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "name"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "required public library or library-system name; 2-120 plain-text characters (query)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "found",
      "name",
      "wikidata_id",
      "location",
      "source"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Name"
      },
      "found": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "True when the lookup matched a record"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "The query as the server interpreted it"
      },
      "caveat": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Caveat to keep in mind when using this result"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Data source the values come from"
      },
      "location": {
       "type": "object",
       "description": "Place the data refers to"
      },
      "inception": {
       "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
       ],
       "description": "Date the entity was founded or created"
      },
      "wikipedia": {
       "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
       ],
       "description": "Wikipedia article URL"
      },
      "architects": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": "Architects"
      },
      "description": {
       "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
       ],
       "description": "Short description"
      },
      "wikidata_id": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Wikidata identifier"
      },
      "other_matches": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object"
       },
  
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```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-public-library-lookup-563cd580/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from saylorinnovations.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/saylorinnovations.com/llms.txt)