# HTML to Markdown Web Distiller with BM25 Budget Control

> HTML to Markdown Web Distiller with BM25 Budget Control is a paid API for AI agents from defi-yield.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Fetches a URL or accepts raw HTML and distills it into compact, agent-ready Markdown or structured output with optional BM25-based token budget control

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://defi-yield.agentdiet.dev/v1/html-to-markdown?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: defi-yield.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://defi-yield.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/defi-yield-agentdiet-dev-html-to-markdown-web-distiller-with-bm25-2d5714e4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_pTz77k-A4MPLuFZNibN2F

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 defi-yield-agentdiet-dev-html-to-markdown-web-distiller-with-bm25-2d5714e4
```

Example prompt: Fetch the Stripe docs page at https://stripe.com/docs/payments and distill it into compact markdown, keeping it under 2000 tokens and focusing on payment intents.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to read web content but must stay within a token budget, minimize LLM costs, or convert messy HTML into clean structured text. It is especially useful for injecting documentation, research pages, or competitor content into agent context windows efficiently. Prefer it over raw HTML fetching whenever token efficiency and structured output matter, or when BM25 keyword-focused extraction is needed to surface only the most relevant sections of a large page.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error status
- Pages behind authentication or paywalls may return incomplete or empty content
- max_tokens set too low may result in severely truncated or meaningless output
- query parameter ignored if mode is not set to budget
- Raw HTML too large may exceed processing limits
- Network timeouts on slow external pages
- Non-HTML resources (PDFs, images) may produce poor distillation quality

## How this service works

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

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the distilled content (Markdown text, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25-filtered excerpt depending on mode), an ROI proof block showing raw vs distilled token counts, compression ratio, tokens saved, and estimated LLM cost saved in USD, plus cache status and billing metadata.

## 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/defi-yield-agentdiet-dev-html-to-markdown-web-distiller-with-bm25-2d5714e4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from defi-yield.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/defi-yield.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)