# works-by-author

> works-by-author is a paid API for AI agents from intel.rallylive.ca, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns all free public-domain books, audiobooks, and films for a given author name, sourced from Gutenberg, LibriVox, and Internet Archive, grouped by media type with download links.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/author
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/works-by-author-2febd3c3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_kgEobs_GJ-TVJqjeEYNHM

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 works-by-author-2febd3c3
```

Example prompt: Can you find me all the free public-domain books, audiobooks, and films available for Jane Austen — I want download links for everything across Gutenberg, LibriVox, and the Internet Archive?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a unified, cross-platform listing of all free public-domain works by a specific author in one call, rather than querying Gutenberg, LibriVox, and Internet Archive separately. Ideal for building reading lists, research tools, or offline content libraries where the author is known and you want all media types at once.

## Known failure modes

- Author not found in any catalogued source — returns empty or no results
- Ambiguous author name matches multiple people — may return mixed results
- Author name format issues if neither 'Firstname Lastname' nor 'Lastname, Firstname' format is recognized
- Network or upstream source (Gutenberg/LibriVox/Archive) unavailable — partial or failed response
- Payment not processed — 402 response blocking access

## How this service works

Everything free by an author: all catalogued public-domain books, audiobooks and films for an author name across Gutenberg, LibriVox and Internet Archive, grouped by kind with download links. Handles 'Jane Austen' or 'Austen, Jane'. $0.01 per author.

## Output

A structured response listing all catalogued free works for the requested author, organized by media type (books, audiobooks, films), each with title and download link(s), sourced from Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, and Internet Archive.

## 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"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/works-by-author-2febd3c3/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from intel.rallylive.ca](https://www.zero.xyz/host/intel.rallylive.ca/llms.txt)