# Web Distillation with BM25 Budget Control

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

Fetches a URL or processes raw HTML and distills it into compact Markdown, structured JSON, skeleton outline, or BM25-ranked token-budget excerpt, with ROI compression metrics

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://sec-intel.agentdiet.dev/v1/paywall-clean-extract?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: sec-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://sec-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sec-intel-agentdiet-dev-web-distillation-with-bm25-budget-control-7ef48554
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_PWyJNTu7jAJnVGTjb_0zQ

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 sec-intel-agentdiet-dev-web-distillation-with-bm25-budget-control-7ef48554 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Fetch the page at https://stripe.com/docs/payments and distill it into clean markdown using a strict 500-token budget focused on the query 'payment intents API'.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to read a webpage but wants to minimize LLM token consumption — especially for long, noisy, or heavily-formatted pages. It is the right choice when you need BM25-ranked excerpts focused on a specific query rather than the full page. Prefer it over generic scrapers when compression ratio and ROI proof are important to track. Use the budget mode for strict token caps in cost-sensitive pipelines.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error status
- Missing required 'url' field when html is also absent causes a validation error
- mode=budget without a 'query' may return unranked or empty excerpt
- max_tokens set too low (below 20) is rejected by schema validation
- Paywalled or bot-blocked pages may return incomplete or empty distillation
- HTML too large or malformed may cause parsing failures
- Network timeout fetching remote URL

## How this service works

Distill a URL or raw HTML payload with BM25 budget control (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://sec-intel.agentdiet.dev/v1/paywall-clean-extract)

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a 'data' field containing the distilled content (Markdown text, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25-ranked excerpt depending on mode), plus an 'roi_proof' object showing raw_tokens, distilled_tokens, tokens_saved, compression_ratio_pct, roi_multiplier, and llm_cost_saved_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"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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