# 24K Labs Read URL (Web Reader)

> 24K Labs Read URL (Web Reader) is a paid API for AI agents from api.24klabs.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches a URL and returns its clean, readable text content stripped of HTML and boilerplate

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.24klabs.ai/api/read-url
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/24k-labs-read-url-web-reader-ebe2f527
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_VByHZSWPxPZ5cOvYCl71d

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 24k-labs-read-url-web-reader-ebe2f527 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you read the article at https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/15/openai-news/ and give me the clean text content?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to extract clean readable text from a web URL without managing browser infrastructure, especially when pay-per-request USDC billing is preferred over subscription API keys. Good for one-off article reads, content summarization pipelines, or agent workflows that need webpage text as input.

## Known failure modes

- URL is inaccessible or returns a non-200 status — result may be empty or error
- Paywalled or login-required pages may return incomplete or no content
- Dynamic JavaScript-rendered pages may not be fully extracted
- Payment of 0.005 USDC on Base L2 not completed — request blocked with 402
- Malformed URL input causes extraction failure

## How this service works

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## Output

A JSON object with a 'model' field (e.g. 'web-reader-v1'), a 'result' field containing the article title and full clean readable text of the page, and a 'tokens_used' count.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "code": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Primary input content"
  },
  "context": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional context or instructions"
  },
  "language": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Programming language (code services)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "model": "web-reader-v1",
  "result": "Article Title\n\nFull clean text of the article...",
  "tokens_used": 0
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/24k-labs-read-url-web-reader-ebe2f527/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.24klabs.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.24klabs.ai/llms.txt)