# AARN Web Read

> AARN Web Read is a paid API for AI agents from api.aarn.space, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-18).

Fetches a single public webpage URL and returns its content as clean, LLM-ready Markdown or plain text

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.aarn.space/v1/web/read
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-18
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/aarn-web-read-439c73da
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_HMivuh9VIOByHkcKWm9oN

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 aarn-web-read-439c73da -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you fetch the content of https://example.com/article and give it to me as clean Markdown so I can summarize it?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to read a single public webpage and get clean, LLM-ready text back quickly. It is optimized for AI agent pipelines, RAG context retrieval, and research summarization where you want boilerplate removed and content normalized to Markdown. Prefer this over general HTTP fetch tools when you need the output pre-processed for LLM consumption rather than raw HTML.

## Known failure modes

- URL is behind a paywall or login — returns empty or error response
- Target page blocks crawlers via robots.txt or rate limiting — may return partial content or error
- Malformed or unreachable URL — returns HTTP error or timeout
- Dynamic JavaScript-rendered pages may return incomplete content if JS is not executed
- Non-public or intranet URLs will fail to resolve

## How this service works

Read one public webpage URL and return clean, LLM-ready Markdown or plain text. Designed for AI agents that need webpage contents, RAG context, research or summarization.

## Output

Returns the content of the requested webpage stripped of boilerplate HTML, ads, and navigation, formatted as clean Markdown or plain text that is immediately usable by an LLM for summarization, question answering, or RAG ingestion.

## 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",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object"
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "headers": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {}
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/aarn-web-read-439c73da/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.aarn.space](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.aarn.space/llms.txt)