# Web URL & HTML to Compact Markdown Distiller

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

Fetches a URL or raw HTML and distills it into compact, agent-ready Markdown, structured JSON, skeleton outline, or BM25-focused budget excerpt with token savings metrics

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://shopify-spy.agentdiet.dev/v1/html-to-markdown?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: shopify-spy.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://shopify-spy.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/shopify-spy-agentdiet-dev-web-url-html-to-compact-markdown-distiller-6321e4d7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_SOZSLJXiQLEzYUaj9jE8z

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-spy-agentdiet-dev-web-url-html-to-compact-markdown-distiller-6321e4d7
```

Example prompt: Fetch the page at https://example.com/product and distill it into compact markdown — use budget mode with 'pricing plans' as the focus query and cap it at 500 tokens so I don't blow my LLM context window.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to fetch and consume web content within a strict token budget, or when you need clean, structured Markdown from a URL without manually scraping and cleaning HTML. It is especially useful when downstream LLM costs matter and you want measurable compression savings, or when you need BM25-focused extraction to pull only the most relevant section of a large page.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error status
- HTML too large or malformed may produce incomplete distillation
- max_tokens set too low may result in heavily truncated or empty output
- BM25 query not matching any content returns minimal or empty budget excerpt
- Rate limiting or payment failure (HTTP 402) if agent credentials are missing
- Network timeout if the target URL is slow to respond

## 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-spy.agentdiet.dev/v1/html-to-markdown)

## Output

Returns a distilled version of the web page or HTML in the requested mode (Markdown, structured JSON, skeleton outline, or BM25 budget excerpt), along with ROI proof showing raw token count, distilled token count, tokens saved, compression ratio, estimated LLM cost savings, and optional cache and billing metadata.

## 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/shopify-spy-agentdiet-dev-web-url-html-to-compact-markdown-distiller-6321e4d7/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from shopify-spy.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/shopify-spy.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)