# Web URL to Compact Markdown Distiller with BM25 Budget Control

> Web URL to Compact Markdown Distiller with BM25 Budget Control is a paid API for AI agents from preflight.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Fetches a URL or raw HTML and distills it into compact, token-efficient markdown, structured data, or BM25-focused excerpts for agent consumption

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://preflight.agentdiet.dev/v1/url-to-markdown?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: preflight.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://preflight.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/preflight-agentdiet-dev-web-url-to-compact-markdown-distiller-with-a00904b4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_8VJGvmx3pfGCKHPxHvyKZ

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 preflight-agentdiet-dev-web-url-to-compact-markdown-distiller-with-a00904b4
```

Example prompt: Fetch the page at https://stripe.com/docs/payments and distill it into compact markdown using budget mode with a focus query on 'payment intents' and a max of 500 tokens.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to read a webpage but must stay within a token budget, reduce LLM inference costs, or get only the relevant portion of a page rather than ingesting the full raw HTML. It is especially valuable when mode=budget with a BM25 query is used to surface only the most relevant content from long pages. Prefer it over raw fetch+parse approaches when compression ratio and cost savings need to be tracked explicitly.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns non-200 HTTP status — endpoint may return an error status
- Raw HTML is malformed or empty — distillation may produce minimal output
- max_tokens too low (below 20) — rejected by schema validation
- mode=budget without a query — BM25 focus may be unfocused or fall back to default behavior
- Payment not provided — x402 payment required response if agent lacks USDC funding
- Rate limits or timeouts on fetching very large pages

## How this service works

Distill a URL or raw HTML payload with BM25 budget control (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://preflight.agentdiet.dev/v1/url-to-markdown)

## Output

Returns a distilled data object containing the page content in the requested mode (markdown text, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton heading outline, or BM25-focused excerpt), along with ROI proof showing raw vs distilled token counts, compression ratio, estimated LLM cost saved, and optional cache hit/miss status and billing info.

## 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

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