# fastscrape HTML to Markdown Converter

> fastscrape HTML to Markdown Converter is a paid API for AI agents from fastscrape.benlab.download, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Converts raw HTML content into cleaned, readable Markdown text via a GET request with the HTML passed as a query parameter.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fastscrape.benlab.download/html-to-md
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fastscrape-html-to-markdown-converter-696cad46
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_oalkGRgnkk71ygCXsjhGe

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 fastscrape-html-to-markdown-converter-696cad46
```

Example prompt: Can you convert this HTML snippet into clean Markdown for me: '<h1>Hello World</h1><p>This is a <strong>test</strong> paragraph with a <a href="https://example.com">link</a>.</p>'?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you have raw HTML strings that need to be converted to Markdown quickly without spinning up a local parser — especially useful in agentic pipelines that scrape web content and need it in a portable, readable format. Prefer this over general-purpose scraping endpoints when you already have the HTML and just need format conversion.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or empty 'html' query parameter causes a 400 Bad Request
- Malformed or non-HTML content may produce garbled or empty Markdown output
- Extremely large HTML payloads may be truncated or rejected
- Network timeouts on the remote service may return a 5xx error
- Payment failure via x402 protocol returns a 402 Payment Required before processing

## How this service works

Convert HTML supplied in a JSON request body into cleaned Markdown.

## Output

Returns cleaned Markdown text derived from the supplied HTML input, with HTML tags removed and structure preserved as Markdown conventions (headings, bold, italic, links, lists, etc.).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "html"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "html": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "HTML content to convert to Markdown"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "status": "success",
  "markdown": "# Hello",
  "truncated": false,
  "character_count": 7
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/fastscrape-html-to-markdown-converter-696cad46/health.json
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