# Web URL Distillation to Compact Agent-Ready Tokens

> Web URL Distillation to Compact Agent-Ready Tokens is a paid API for AI agents from hn-pulse.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, agent-ready Markdown, structured JSON, outline skeleton, or BM25-focused budget excerpts with token savings metrics.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://hn-pulse.agentdiet.dev/v1/pdf-extract?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: hn-pulse.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://hn-pulse.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hn-pulse-agentdiet-dev-web-url-distillation-to-compact-agent-ready-7691ae44
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DFBvgyNic1U8JZ0gHY5VG

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 hn-pulse-agentdiet-dev-web-url-distillation-to-compact-agent-ready-7691ae44
```

Example prompt: Distill the content at https://stripe.com/docs/payments into compact markdown, keeping it under 2000 tokens, focused on payment intents.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to fit web content into a constrained LLM context window, want BM25-focused relevance filtering around a specific query, or need structured/skeleton extraction rather than raw scraping. Ideal for agentic pipelines that repeatedly fetch web pages and want to minimize token costs. Prefer over generic scrapers when token budget control and compression metrics matter.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns non-200 status — endpoint may return an error status
- max_tokens ceiling too low to produce meaningful output — truncation or error
- Raw HTML too large to process within service limits
- BM25 query returns no relevant sections when mode=budget — sparse or empty excerpt
- Payment/402 flow fails if agent lacks sufficient USDC balance
- Invalid mode enum value causes validation error

## How this service works

Distill a URL or raw HTML payload with BM25 budget control (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://hn-pulse.agentdiet.dev/v1/pdf-extract)

## Output

Returns a 'data' object containing distilled content (Markdown text, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25-filtered excerpt depending on mode), along with an 'roi_proof' object showing raw token count, distilled token count, tokens saved, compression ratio percentage, ROI multiplier, and estimated LLM cost saved in USD. Also includes optional cache status (HIT/MISS) and billing info.

## 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/hn-pulse-agentdiet-dev-web-url-distillation-to-compact-agent-ready-7691ae44/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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