# AgentDiet Markdown Distill

> AgentDiet Markdown Distill is a paid API for AI agents from agentdiet.dev, paid per call via x402 or MPP, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-20).

Fetches a URL and converts its HTML content into clean, token-efficient Markdown by stripping 85-97% of HTML bloat

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agentdiet.dev/v1/markdown-distill?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402, MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-20
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentdiet-markdown-distill-d1f85200
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yxh5E0Opsx_lYvfce-l2h

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 agentdiet-markdown-distill-d1f85200
```

Example prompt: Can you fetch the article at https://example.com/blog/my-post and convert it to clean markdown, stripping all the HTML junk so I can use it in my prompt without wasting tokens?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to feed web page content into an LLM prompt and want to minimize token usage. It is ideal over generic web scrapers when you specifically need clean Markdown output optimized for AI consumption, and when cost per call ($0.001 USDC) matters at scale. Prefer it over raw HTML fetchers when you need the content to be immediately readable and structured without post-processing.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error or empty content
- Paywalled or bot-blocked pages may return minimal or no content
- Very large pages may be truncated or time out
- Dynamic JavaScript-rendered content may not be captured if the page requires JS execution
- Malformed input schema (missing 'url' query param) returns a validation error
- Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks the request

## How this service works

Distill a URL or raw HTML payload with BM25 budget control (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://agentdiet.dev/v1/markdown-distill)

## Output

Returns a Markdown-formatted string of the target page's content with HTML tags, scripts, styles, and other token-bloating elements removed, typically reducing token count by 85-97% compared to raw HTML.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "url"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "type": "string",
   "minLength": 1,
   "description": "Target webpage URL to fetch and distill (or builtin://stripe-docs)"
  },
  "html": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional raw HTML string to distill directly without fetching"
  },
  "mode": {
   "enum": [
    "markdown",
    "structured",
    "skeleton",
    "budget"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "default": "markdown",
   "description": "Distillation mode"
  },
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "BM25 focus query when mode=budget"
  },
  "max_tokens": {
   "type": "integer",
   "minimum": 20,
   "description": "Strict token budget ceiling when mode=budget"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "status",
  "roi_proof",
  "data"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "data": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "Distilled Markdown, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25 budget excerpt."
  },
  "cache": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "status": {
     "enum": [
      "HIT",
      "MISS"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "cache_key": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "latency_ms": {
     "type": "number"
    }
   }
  },
  "status": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Execution status ('ok')"
  },
  "billing": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "agent_id": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "payment_method": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "fee_charged_usd": {
     "type": "number"
    }
   }
  },
  "roi_proof": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "raw_tokens": {
     "type": "integer"
    },
    "tokens_saved": {
     "type": "integer"
    },
    "roi_multiplier": {
     "type": "number"
    },
    "distilled_tokens": {
     "type": "integer"
    },
    "llm_cost_saved_usd": {
     "type": "number"
    },
    "compression_ratio_pct": {
     "type": "number"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentdiet-markdown-distill-d1f85200/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)