# Web URL Article Extractor & Distiller

> Web URL Article Extractor & Distiller 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 a webpage by URL (or accepts raw HTML) and distills it into compact, token-efficient Markdown, structured JSON, skeleton outline, or BM25-focused budget excerpt for AI agents.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev/v1/article-extractor?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-web-url-article-extractor-distiller-7a26a6c3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_3BKdafcUYUwXKn_Znbqf9

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-web-url-article-extractor-distiller-7a26a6c3
```

Example prompt: Distill the article at https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/openai-news into clean markdown, and if there's too much content use budget mode with a 500-token ceiling focused on 'OpenAI funding'.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to ingest webpage content but must stay within token budgets or minimize LLM costs — especially when BM25 query-focused extraction is needed to zero in on relevant sections. Prefer over generic scraping tools when you need token-count ROI metrics or multiple distillation modes (markdown, structured, skeleton, budget) in a single call. Ideal for agents doing research, document parsing, or RAG pipelines where raw HTML would be too noisy and expensive.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns non-200 HTTP status — endpoint may return an error status
- Paywalled or JavaScript-rendered pages may yield incomplete or empty content
- max_tokens set too low may produce truncated or empty budget excerpts
- Raw HTML input is malformed or empty, yielding no extractable content
- Payment/402 failure if agent wallet has insufficient USDC balance

## 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/article-extractor)

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a 'data' field containing the distilled content (Markdown text, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25-focused excerpt depending on mode), plus an 'roi_proof' object showing raw token count, distilled token count, tokens saved, compression ratio percentage, and estimated LLM cost saved in USD. Also includes optional cache hit/miss 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-web-url-article-extractor-distiller-7a26a6c3/health.json
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