# Web Article Distiller with BM25 Budget Control

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

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

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://prompt-guard.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: prompt-guard.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://prompt-guard.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/prompt-guard-agentdiet-dev-web-article-distiller-with-bm25-budget-96b6f96b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_UC8gLPf0h1BlFNiw8OD6X

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-web-article-distiller-with-bm25-budget-96b6f96b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the article at https://www.bbc.com/news/technology and distill it into clean markdown, keeping it under 500 tokens and focused on the topic of AI regulation.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to reduce web content to fit within an LLM context window, especially when you want BM25-ranked relevance filtering against a specific query. It is ideal when you need token-efficient web reading with measurable ROI (tokens saved, cost saved). Prefer it over generic scrapers when you need distillation modes (markdown, structured, skeleton, budget) rather than raw HTML, and when you want built-in token accounting for cost-aware agent pipelines.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns non-200 status — endpoint may return an error status
- Raw HTML is empty or malformed — distillation may return minimal or empty output
- max_tokens set too low (below 20) — rejected by schema validation
- BM25 query provided without mode=budget — query may be ignored
- Target site blocks crawlers or returns CAPTCHA — content unavailable
- Payment not provided — HTTP 402 returned requiring x402 micropayment

## 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/article-extractor)

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a 'data' field containing the distilled content (Markdown text, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25-focused excerpt depending on mode), plus an 'roi_proof' object showing raw vs distilled token counts, compression ratio percentage, tokens saved, and estimated LLM cost saved in USD. Also includes 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

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