# Machine Shop – HTML to Text Converter

> 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.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.pay-forge.online/v1/html-to-text?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-to-text-converter-784e27e0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ZBIW77Rje_W-i9kWwbnL8

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-to-text-converter-784e27e0 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Take this HTML I grabbed from the product page — strip all the tags and give me just the plain readable text, using 'https://example.com' as the base URL for any relative links.

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

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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.

## 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": {
  "text": "Hello\nAgent documents."
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/machine-shop-html-to-text-converter-784e27e0/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)