# Basebuilder2 URL-to-Text

> Basebuilder2 URL-to-Text is a paid API for AI agents from bbx-search.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.119201/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Converts a web page URL into extracted plain text content

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://bbx-search.vercel.app/api/url-to-text?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.119201/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder2-url-to-text-e3352dc3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_J5E0Z-Nh7EGkCae569j9W

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 basebuilder2-url-to-text-e3352dc3 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you grab all the readable text from this webpage for me? The URL is https://example.com/article/2024/big-news.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to convert a single web page URL into clean, readable plain text for downstream tasks like summarization, analysis, or storage. It is part of the BaseBuilder Search API hub and is priced per call, making it suitable for on-demand extraction rather than bulk crawling.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns a non-200 HTTP status — likely returns an error message
- Page is JavaScript-rendered and content cannot be extracted statically
- URL points to a PDF or binary file rather than an HTML page
- Rate limiting or bot-detection on the target website blocks extraction
- Malformed or invalid URL input causes a request failure

## How this service works

BaseBuilder Search API hub - 18 paid endpoints

## Output

Returns the extracted plain text content of the web page at the given URL, stripping HTML, scripts, and formatting to deliver readable text suitable for further processing, summarization, or analysis.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/basebuilder2-url-to-text-e3352dc3/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from bbx-search.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/bbx-search.vercel.app/llms.txt)