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Machine Shop – HTML to Text Converter
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Machine Shop – HTML to Text Converter 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).
Converts raw HTML markup into clean, readable plain text by stripping tags and resolving relative URLs.
Price / call$0.004
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
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Output
A JSON object with a single 'text' field containing the plain-text representation of the input HTML, with tags stripped and whitespace normalized. Relative URLs are resolved against the provided base_url if supplied.
Example use cases
Preprocessing HTML for LLM analysis
“I have this big block of HTML from a company's about page — can you convert it to plain text so I can feed it into my summarizer without all the tag noise?”
Extracting readable content from scraped pages
“Here's the raw HTML I scraped from a news article. Strip the markup and give me just the article text so I can search it for key evidence.”
Comparing document snapshots as plain text
“I've got two HTML versions of the same policy document — convert them both to plain text first so I can diff them and see what actually changed.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://api.pay-forge.online/v1/html-to-text?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a simple, cost-effective ($0.004/call) server-side HTML-to-text conversion without spinning up a browser or DOM parser locally. It is ideal for preprocessing HTML before document analysis, LLM ingestion, or text comparison. Prefer it over full headless-browser scraping when you already have the raw HTML and just need clean text extracted quickly.
Side effects
- HTML input exceeds 50,000 character limit — returns validation error
- Malformed or non-HTML input may produce garbled or empty text output
- Missing base_url means relative URLs remain unresolved in the text
- Network or service errors return non-200 status with error message
- Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks the request before processing
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| html | string | |
| base_url | string |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"text": "Hello\nAgent documents."
}
}Tags
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