Machine Shop – Clean Text

x402

Machine Shop – Clean Text is a paid API for AI agents from api.pay-forge.online, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-20).

Strips and normalizes whitespace/formatting from raw text, returning the cleaned version along with before/after character counts.

Price / call$0.004

Seller volume →—

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StatusUnknown

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Output

Returns a JSON object with the cleaned text string, the character count before cleaning (chars_before), and the character count after cleaning (chars_after), allowing callers to assess how much whitespace/formatting was removed.

Example use cases

Normalize scraped web content

“I scraped some text from a webpage and it's full of extra whitespace and weird formatting. Can you clean it up and tell me how many characters got stripped out?”

Preprocess document before field extraction

“Before I extract structured fields from this contract text, can you clean it up first — remove all the extra spaces and line breaks so the text is normalized?”

Sanitize user-submitted form input

“A user just submitted this comment through our form and it has a ton of redundant whitespace. Can you clean it and let me know the character count before and after?”

Technical details

Endpoint

POSThttps://api.pay-forge.online/v1/clean-text?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Choose this endpoint when you need a lightweight, cost-effective text normalization step before downstream processing such as field extraction, comparison, or analysis. It is ideal as a preprocessing stage in a pipeline where consistent whitespace and formatting matters. Prefer it over building custom regex cleaning logic when working within the Machine Shop ecosystem, especially when you want a character-count audit of what was removed.

Side effects

Input text exceeds 50000 Unicode characters — returns HTTP 413
Malformed JSON body or missing 'text' field — likely 400 error
Empty text input is valid and returns chars_before and chars_after both as 0 or equal
Payment not provided or invalid x402 payment header — returns HTTP 402

Input

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
text	string	Text to process, including empty text; at most 50000 Unicode characters (413 if exceeded).

Output

Schema · Response

{
  "type": "json",
  "example": {
    "text": "Hello world\nNext line.",
    "chars_after": 22,
    "chars_before": 32
  }
}

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