# Web URL Distiller & HTML Compressor (AgentDiet)

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

Fetches a webpage or raw HTML and distills it into compact, agent-ready tokens using Markdown, structured JSON, outline skeleton, or BM25-focused budget mode

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://sec-intel.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: sec-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://sec-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sec-intel-agentdiet-dev-web-url-distiller-html-compressor-agentdiet-bb7deb69
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_RBr1YAa714ujUGNjx5a9Q

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-url-distiller-html-compressor-agentdiet-bb7deb69
```

Example prompt: Can you grab this article URL https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/10/ai-agents-rise and distill it into clean markdown, but keep it under 800 tokens focused on AI agent trends?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to feed webpage content to an LLM but want to minimize token usage and cost — especially useful before sending web content into a long context window. Prefer it over raw HTTP fetching when you need clean Markdown, structured tables, or BM25-focused excerpts rather than raw HTML. The budget mode with a query and max_tokens ceiling is ideal when you know exactly what topic you need from a large document and want strict token control.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error status
- URL behind authentication/paywalls may return empty or partial content
- BM25 budget mode with no query may not focus content effectively
- max_tokens set too low may truncate critical content
- Raw HTML injection via the html parameter may bypass some fetch errors but still fail on malformed HTML
- Payment failure (x402) will block the request if USDC balance is insufficient

## 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/article-extractor)

## Output

Returns distilled page content in the requested mode (Markdown text, structured JSON with tables and metadata, a skeleton outline, or a BM25-ranked budget excerpt), plus ROI proof metrics showing raw token count, distilled token count, tokens saved, compression ratio percentage, and estimated LLM cost saved in USD. Also includes cache status (HIT/MISS) and billing confirmation.

## 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/sec-intel-agentdiet-dev-web-url-distiller-html-compressor-agentdiet-bb7deb69/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from sec-intel.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/sec-intel.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)