# Web URL Distiller & HTML Compressor (Agent-Ready Tokens)

> Web URL Distiller & HTML Compressor (Agent-Ready Tokens) is a paid API for AI agents from mesh.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Fetches and compresses a web page or raw HTML into compact, token-efficient markdown, structured JSON, skeleton outline, or BM25-budget excerpt for AI agents.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mesh.agentdiet.dev/v1/article-extractor?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: mesh.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://mesh.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mesh-agentdiet-dev-web-url-distiller-html-compressor-agent-ready-tokens-bf208983
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_0dBAX7SzjtZ9rHDyYs2Av

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 mesh-agentdiet-dev-web-url-distiller-html-compressor-agent-ready-tokens-bf208983
```

Example prompt: Can you fetch https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment and distill it into clean markdown, keeping it under 800 tokens and focused on the query 'accept payment integration'?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to ingest a web page without consuming excessive context tokens. It is especially valuable when feeding documentation, articles, or structured web data to LLMs on a token budget, or when you need BM25-filtered excerpts relevant to a specific query. Prefer it over generic scraping tools when token efficiency and compression metrics (ROI proof) matter, or when you want structured JSON output from HTML tables rather than raw HTML.

## Known failure modes

- URL unreachable or returns non-200 — fetch failure with error status
- Token budget too low (max_tokens < 20) — validation error
- BM25 query provided without mode=budget — query ignored silently
- Raw HTML too large — may time out or return partial distillation
- Invalid URL format — immediate error response
- Paywalled or bot-blocked page — returns empty or minimal 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://mesh.agentdiet.dev/v1/article-extractor)

## Output

Returns a 'data' object containing the distilled content (markdown text, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25-filtered excerpt depending on mode), plus an 'roi_proof' block showing raw vs. distilled token counts, tokens saved, compression ratio percentage, estimated LLM cost saved in USD, and ROI multiplier. Also includes a cache status (HIT/MISS) 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/mesh-agentdiet-dev-web-url-distiller-html-compressor-agent-ready-tokens-bf208983/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mesh.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mesh.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)