# Sift Web Tools – /v1/fetch (Web Page to Readable Text)

> Sift Web Tools – /v1/fetch (Web Page to Readable Text) is a paid API for AI agents from sift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Fetches a web page and returns its content as clean, readable Markdown text with title and word count

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://sift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud/v1/fetch?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sift-web-tools-v1-fetch-web-page-to-readable-text-ad934bb1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_mu_GSQjQ4VY9BGQLUGAox

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 sift-web-tools-v1-fetch-web-page-to-readable-text-ad934bb1
```

Example prompt: Fetch the readable text from https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/openai-funding-round/ and give me the full markdown content, up to 60000 characters.

## When to prefer this

Use /v1/fetch when you need the human-readable text body of a standard HTML webpage and want it returned as Markdown suitable for LLM consumption. Prefer this over /v1/screenshot (which returns a PNG image) or /v1/metadata (which returns only structured metadata without body text). Choose /v1/pdf instead if the URL points to a PDF document. This endpoint is ideal when you want to read, summarize, or analyze the prose content of an article, product page, documentation page, or blog post.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns non-200 HTTP status — endpoint will not charge and will return an error
- Page requires JavaScript rendering that the fetcher cannot execute — content may be empty or partial
- Paywalled or login-gated pages return only the visible pre-auth content
- max_chars set outside the valid range (1000–200000) causes a validation error
- URL points to a binary file (PDF, image) instead of HTML — use /v1/pdf or file-specific endpoints instead
- USDC payment on Base fails or wallet has insufficient balance — call is rejected before fetching

## How this service works

Fetch a web page as clean Markdown. Readable main text of any public web page as Markdown, with title, author, date and word count. Boilerplate, menus and ads removed.

## Output

A JSON object containing the original URL, the page title, the full page content rendered as Markdown (stripped of navigation/ads/boilerplate), and an integer word count. Max length is controllable via the max_chars parameter (default 40,000 characters).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "url"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Page URL"
      },
      "max_chars": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Max Markdown characters (1000-200000, default 40000)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "title": "Example Domain",
  "markdown": "# Example Domain\n\nThis domain is for use in illustrative examples...",
  "word_count": 28
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/sift-web-tools-v1-fetch-web-page-to-readable-text-ad934bb1/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from sift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud](https://www.zero.xyz/host/sift.srv1996466.hstgr.cloud/llms.txt)