# Article Extractor with BM25 Budget Control

> Article Extractor with BM25 Budget Control is a paid API for AI agents from mcp-compiler.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Fetches and distills a webpage URL or raw HTML into clean Markdown, structured JSON, skeleton outline, or a BM25-ranked token-budget excerpt

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://mcp-compiler.agentdiet.dev/v1/article-extractor?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: mcp-compiler.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://mcp-compiler.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mcp-compiler-agentdiet-dev-article-extractor-with-bm25-budget-control-c02a5934
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_JP3CQVgwgW8xyDtNtGYR0

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 mcp-compiler-agentdiet-dev-article-extractor-with-bm25-budget-control-c02a5934 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Distill the article at https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/15/openai-news/ into clean Markdown, and if it's too long, use budget mode with the query 'OpenAI funding' and keep it under 500 tokens.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to reduce the token footprint of web content before passing it to an LLM, especially when you have a strict token budget or want to focus extraction on a specific query using BM25 ranking. It is superior to raw web scraping for LLM pipelines because it returns already-cleaned, compressed content with measurable ROI metrics. Use it over generic scrapers when you need multiple output modes (Markdown, structured JSON, skeleton, or budget excerpt) from a single endpoint.

## Known failure modes

- URL unreachable or returns non-200 status — endpoint may return an error status
- Malformed or empty HTML input — distillation fails with no content
- Token budget too small (below minimum of 20) — validation error
- BM25 query provided without mode=budget — query may be ignored
- Rate limit or payment failure via x402 — request blocked
- Page requires JavaScript rendering — static fetch may return incomplete content

## How this service works

Distill a URL or raw HTML payload with BM25 budget control (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://mcp-compiler.agentdiet.dev/v1/article-extractor)

## Output

Returns a distilled representation of the webpage in the requested mode (Markdown, structured JSON with tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25-ranked token-budget excerpt), along with ROI proof showing raw vs. distilled token counts, compression ratio, tokens saved, and estimated LLM cost saved. Also includes cache hit/miss status and billing details.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "url"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "url": {
   "type": "string",
   "minLength": 1,
   "description": "Target webpage URL to fetch and distill (or builtin://stripe-docs)"
  },
  "html": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Optional raw HTML string to distill directly without fetching"
  },
  "mode": {
   "enum": [
    "markdown",
    "structured",
    "skeleton",
    "budget"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "default": "markdown",
   "description": "Distillation mode"
  },
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "BM25 focus query when mode=budget"
  },
  "max_tokens": {
   "type": "integer",
   "minimum": 20,
   "description": "Strict token budget ceiling when mode=budget"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "status",
  "roi_proof",
  "data"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "data": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "Distilled Markdown, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25 budget excerpt."
  },
  "cache": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "status": {
     "enum": [
      "HIT",
      "MISS"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "cache_key": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "latency_ms": {
     "type": "number"
    }
   }
  },
  "status": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Execution status ('ok')"
  },
  "billing": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "agent_id": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "payment_method": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "fee_charged_usd": {
     "type": "number"
    }
   }
  },
  "roi_proof": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "raw_tokens": {
     "type": "integer"
    },
    "tokens_saved": {
     "type": "integer"
    },
    "roi_multiplier": {
     "type": "number"
    },
    "distilled_tokens": {
     "type": "integer"
    },
    "llm_cost_saved_usd": {
     "type": "number"
    },
    "compression_ratio_pct": {
     "type": "number"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/mcp-compiler-agentdiet-dev-article-extractor-with-bm25-budget-control-c02a5934/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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