# AgentDiet Web Distillation API

> AgentDiet Web Distillation API is a paid API for AI agents from alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Fetches and compresses a webpage or raw HTML into compact, agent-ready tokens using multiple distillation modes including BM25 budget-controlled extraction

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev/v1/web-scrape?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/alpha-stream-agentdiet-dev-agentdiet-web-distillation-api-08ff8d20
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_sLrRi9KdGGuVar_oSNahZ

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 alpha-stream-agentdiet-dev-agentdiet-web-distillation-api-08ff8d20
```

Example prompt: Fetch the page at https://stripe.com/docs/payments and distill it into markdown, keeping it under 2000 tokens — I need a compact version I can feed into my context window.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to ingest live web content but must stay within a strict token budget. It is especially valuable when LLM context costs matter, when you need structured or skeleton extraction rather than raw HTML, or when BM25 relevance filtering is needed to focus on a specific topic within a large page. Prefer this over raw fetch-and-parse pipelines when you want compression ROI metrics and multi-mode distillation in a single call.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error status
- Token budget too low (below 20) triggers validation error
- URL behind authentication or bot-protection may return incomplete content
- Raw HTML injection via html parameter may produce garbled output if malformed
- BM25 mode without a query parameter may fall back to default behavior
- Rate limiting or payment failure via x402 may block 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://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev/v1/web-scrape)

## Output

Returns a data object containing the distilled page content in the requested format (Markdown, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25-focused excerpt), along with ROI proof metrics showing raw vs. distilled token counts, compression ratio, tokens saved, and estimated LLM cost saved in USD. Also includes cache status and billing details.

## 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/alpha-stream-agentdiet-dev-agentdiet-web-distillation-api-08ff8d20/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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