# KiteEndpoints.ai - URL to Text

> KiteEndpoints.ai - URL to Text is a paid API for AI agents from kite-endpoints.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.06/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Converts the content of a given URL into plain text by fetching and extracting the readable text from the webpage.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://kite-endpoints.vercel.app/api/url-to-text
- Price: $0.06/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/kiteendpoints-ai-url-to-text-a6feac62
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FB5o00RI2JrGKKvUwqkWR

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 kiteendpoints-ai-url-to-text-a6feac62 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you grab the text content from this webpage for me — https://example.com/article — and give me just the readable text without any HTML or formatting?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to extract plain readable text from a publicly accessible URL without managing your own web scraping infrastructure. It is especially useful for agents that need to process webpage content for summarization, analysis, or downstream NLP tasks, and when you want a pay-per-request model via USDC on Base chain without subscribing to a larger scraping service.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns a non-200 status — may return an error or empty result
- Page requires JavaScript rendering and content is not present in static HTML
- URL is behind a paywall or login and content cannot be accessed
- Rate limiting or blocking by the target website returns no content
- Malformed or invalid URL causes a request error

## How this service works

400+ paid API endpoints. Social media, AI, crypto, finance, weather, ecommerce, tools. Pay per request with USDC on Base chain.

## Output

Returns the extracted plain text content from the specified URL, stripping HTML markup and returning just the human-readable text of the page.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "example": {
  "result": {
   "data": "example response"
  }
 },
 "properties": {
  "result": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "API response data"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/kiteendpoints-ai-url-to-text-a6feac62/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from kite-endpoints.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/kite-endpoints.vercel.app/llms.txt)