# HTML/URL to Markdown Distiller with BM25 Budget Control

> HTML/URL to Markdown Distiller 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 2026-10-21).

Fetches a webpage URL or raw HTML and converts it into compact, agent-ready Markdown (or structured JSON, skeleton, or BM25-focused excerpt) with token compression metrics

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mcp-compiler.agentdiet.dev/v1/html-to-markdown?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- 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-html-url-to-markdown-distiller-with-bm25-576e0f5a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_KSFg7x1-VKCofXTMY81RV

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-html-url-to-markdown-distiller-with-bm25-576e0f5a
```

Example prompt: Can you fetch https://stripe.com/docs/payments and distill it into compact markdown, staying under 2000 tokens and focusing on the query 'payment intents API'?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to read and process web pages but must stay within strict token budgets, or when raw HTML is too noisy and verbose for direct LLM consumption. Particularly valuable when you need BM25-focused extraction to retrieve only the most query-relevant content from a long page, or when you want structured JSON tables or skeleton outlines rather than raw text. Prefer over generic scrapers when token efficiency and ROI metrics matter for cost tracking.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error status
- URL requires JavaScript rendering and static fetch fails
- max_tokens set below minimum of 20 causes validation error
- mode=budget without a query parameter may return unfiltered content
- Rate limiting or payment failure (HTTP 402) if agent lacks sufficient balance
- HTML content too large may hit internal processing limits

## 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/html-to-markdown)

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a 'data' field containing the distilled content (Markdown text, structured JSON tables, skeleton outline, or BM25-scored excerpt), an 'roi_proof' object showing raw token count, distilled token count, tokens saved, compression ratio percentage, ROI multiplier, and estimated LLM cost saved in USD, plus optional 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-html-url-to-markdown-distiller-with-bm25-576e0f5a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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