# Web URL Article Extractor & Distiller

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

Fetches and distills a webpage URL (or raw HTML) into compact, agent-ready tokens using BM25 budget control and multiple extraction modes

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://shopify-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: shopify-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://shopify-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/shopify-intel-agentdiet-dev-web-url-article-extractor-distiller-2ae97d5f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_7EkuZKk58Cr8g35NoxxBG

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 shopify-intel-agentdiet-dev-web-url-article-extractor-distiller-2ae97d5f
```

Example prompt: Distill the article at https://shopify.dev/docs/api into compact markdown — use budget mode with the query 'API authentication' and keep it under 500 tokens.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to ingest web content within tight token budgets — especially when you need BM25-focused extraction to retrieve only query-relevant passages from long pages, or when you want structured/skeleton output rather than raw HTML. Ideal for agentic pipelines where LLM context cost matters and raw web fetching would be too token-expensive.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error status
- Missing required 'url' parameter results in 400-level error
- mode=budget without a query may return generic distillation
- max_tokens set too low may produce truncated or empty output
- Raw HTML too large may exceed processing limits
- Payment failure via x402 blocks 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://shopify-intel.agentdiet.dev/v1/article-extractor)

## Output

Returns a distilled version of the webpage in the requested mode (Markdown, structured JSON, skeleton, or BM25 budget excerpt), along with ROI proof metrics including raw token count, distilled token count, tokens saved, compression ratio percentage, estimated LLM cost saved, and cache status.

## 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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