# Machine Shop – HTML Link Extractor

> Machine Shop – HTML Link Extractor 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).

Extracts and returns all hyperlinks (URL and anchor text) from a supplied HTML document string

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.pay-forge.online/v1/html-links?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-20
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/machine-shop-html-link-extractor-62124230
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FuVuQr-nD3xuiRQtQluqy

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 machine-shop-html-link-extractor-62124230 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Extract all the hyperlinks from this HTML — including each link's URL and display text: <paste HTML here>. Use https://example.com as the base URL for resolving relative links.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you have raw HTML content and need a structured list of all hyperlinks it contains, especially when you want anchor text alongside URLs. It is well-suited for agents processing fetched page source, inspecting API response documents, or auditing HTML snippets without needing a live browser or full crawl.

## Known failure modes

- HTML exceeds 50,000 character limit — request is rejected
- Malformed or non-HTML input returns an empty links array or parsing error
- Missing base_url means relative links are returned unresolved
- No links found in document returns an empty array

## How this service works

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## Output

A JSON object containing a 'links' array, where each element has a 'url' field (the resolved hyperlink destination) and a 'text' field (the visible anchor text). Relative URLs are resolved against the provided base_url if supplied.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "html": {
   "type": "string",
   "title": "Html",
   "maxLength": 50000
  },
  "base_url": {
   "type": "string",
   "title": "Base Url",
   "default": "",
   "maxLength": 2048
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "links": [
   {
    "url": "https://example.com",
    "text": "Example"
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/machine-shop-html-link-extractor-62124230/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.pay-forge.online](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.pay-forge.online/llms.txt)