# Semantic HTML Pruner — Web URL Distiller

> Semantic HTML Pruner — Web URL Distiller is a paid API for AI agents from prompt-guard.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Fetches a URL (or accepts raw HTML) and compresses it into compact, agent-ready tokens using BM25 budget control and multiple distillation modes

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://prompt-guard.agentdiet.dev/v1/semantic-html-pruner?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: prompt-guard.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://prompt-guard.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/prompt-guard-agentdiet-dev-semantic-html-pruner-web-url-distiller-071baa81
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_S236L856h3S4wJGQYEWye

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 prompt-guard-agentdiet-dev-semantic-html-pruner-web-url-distiller-071baa81
```

Example prompt: Can you fetch https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout and distill it into compact markdown, keeping it under 2000 tokens — I need the key content without all the HTML noise?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to read a webpage but must stay within a token budget, or when raw HTML is too verbose for an LLM context window. It is especially useful for processing documentation pages, news articles, or product pages where only the semantic content matters. Prefer the 'budget' mode with a BM25 query when you only need content relevant to a specific topic. Prefer 'structured' mode when you need tabular data or metadata. Use over generic scrapers when token efficiency and ROI metrics matter to your pipeline.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error status
- Token budget too low (max_tokens < 20) returns a validation error
- BM25 query provided without mode=budget may be ignored
- Raw HTML payload too large may time out or be rejected
- Paywalled or JavaScript-rendered pages may return incomplete content
- x402 payment failure results in 402 response blocking execution

## How this service works

Distill a URL or raw HTML payload with BM25 budget control (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://prompt-guard.agentdiet.dev/v1/semantic-html-pruner)

## Output

Returns a 'data' object containing the distilled content (Markdown text, structured JSON, skeleton outline, or BM25-focused excerpt depending on mode), plus an 'roi_proof' object showing raw token count, distilled token count, tokens saved, compression ratio percentage, and estimated LLM cost saved in USD. Also includes cache 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/prompt-guard-agentdiet-dev-semantic-html-pruner-web-url-distiller-071baa81/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from prompt-guard.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/prompt-guard.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)