# Skim Clean Reader

> Skim Clean Reader is a paid API for AI agents from skim402.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Converts a URL to agent-ready markdown with metadata, approximately 4x smaller than raw HTML

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://skim402.com/api/v1/read
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/skim-clean-reader-ce23b816
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_m7_YOadfBZ514AIQjww28

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 skim-clean-reader-ce23b816 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you fetch https://example.com/article and give me clean, agent-ready markdown — stripped of all the HTML cruft so it's compact and easy to read?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a single static webpage converted to compact, LLM-ready markdown quickly and cheaply. It is ideal for standard HTML pages that do not require JavaScript execution. If the page is a SPA or JS-gated, prefer the JS-rendered reader sibling. If you need structured JSON article fields, prefer the article extraction endpoint. If you need to process multiple URLs at once, prefer the batch reader endpoint.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns a non-200 HTTP status
- Page requires JavaScript rendering (use the JS-rendered reader sibling endpoint instead)
- Page is behind a login wall or paywall and content cannot be fetched
- URL is malformed or missing
- Rate limiting or timeout on the target server
- Content is not text-based (e.g. PDF, image) and cannot be converted to markdown

## How this service works

Skim: clean reader — URL to agent-ready markdown + metadata, ~4x smaller than raw HTML

## Output

Returns clean markdown rendering of the target webpage along with structured metadata (title, description, etc.), stripped of navigation, ads, and boilerplate HTML — approximately 4x smaller than the raw HTML source, optimized for LLM consumption.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/skim-clean-reader-ce23b816/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from skim402.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/skim402.com/llms.txt)