# AgentDiet Web Article Extractor & Distiller

> AgentDiet Web Article Extractor & Distiller is a paid API for AI agents from github-audit.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Fetches a URL or raw HTML and distills it into compact, agent-ready tokens using markdown, structured, skeleton, or BM25-budget modes

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://github-audit.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: github-audit.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://github-audit.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/github-audit-agentdiet-dev-agentdiet-web-article-extractor-distiller-c56ae26b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_D3GUZrZpsB0phm0gIRdSI

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 github-audit-agentdiet-dev-agentdiet-web-article-extractor-distiller-c56ae26b
```

Example prompt: Distill the article at https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/openai-new-model into compact markdown, keeping it under 800 tokens and focusing the BM25 budget on 'AI safety regulations'.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to ingest web content but must stay within a strict token budget, or when raw HTML is too noisy for direct LLM consumption. It is especially useful when feeding live web pages into LLM context windows, extracting article content without boilerplate, or focusing retrieval on a specific sub-topic via BM25. Prefer it over generic scrapers when token efficiency and compression metrics matter, or when you need structured JSON tables extracted from a webpage rather than raw text.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error status
- HTML fetch blocked by anti-bot measures or paywalls
- mode=budget without query or max_tokens may produce suboptimal output
- max_tokens too low (below 20) rejected by schema validation
- Payment/402 failure if agent wallet has insufficient USDC balance
- Very large pages may exceed processing limits or increase latency

## How this service works

Distill a URL or raw HTML payload with BM25 budget control (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://github-audit.agentdiet.dev/v1/article-extractor)

## Output

Returns a distilled representation of the target webpage or HTML in the requested mode (markdown, structured JSON, skeleton outline, or BM25 budget excerpt), along with ROI proof metrics including raw token count, distilled token count, tokens saved, compression ratio percentage, estimated LLM cost saved in USD, and optional 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/github-audit-agentdiet-dev-agentdiet-web-article-extractor-distiller-c56ae26b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from github-audit.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/github-audit.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)