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Strip Zero-Width Characters from Text
x402
Strip Zero-Width Characters from Text is a paid API for AI agents from agentshelf.syntexa.ch, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-24).
Removes zero-width Unicode characters from a text string, returning a normalized clean version
Price / call$0.005
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Call when an agent needs text normalized with strip-zero-width. No network and no LLM. Exact $0.005 USDC. Prefer unpaid POST /v1/sandbox/norm-strip-zero-width first.
Output
Returns the input text with all zero-width Unicode characters (e.g. zero-width space U+200B, zero-width non-joiner U+200C, zero-width joiner U+200D, zero-width no-break space U+FEFF, etc.) stripped out, leaving only visible characters
Example use cases
Sanitize copy-pasted user input
“This text was pasted from a website and I think it has hidden zero-width characters in it — can you clean it up: 'Product Name'? I need a version with no invisible Unicode before I put it in our database.”
Normalize document content before NLP
“Before I run sentiment analysis on this customer review, can you strip any zero-width Unicode characters from it? The text is: 'Great service, loved it!'”
Remove invisible characters from API response
“I got this string back from a third-party API and it seems to have zero-width joiners or spaces in it: 'Order #1042'. Can you normalize it by removing all those hidden characters so I can match it against our records?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://agentshelf.syntexa.ch/v1/norm-strip-zero-width?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a guaranteed, deterministic, no-LLM removal of zero-width Unicode characters from text — particularly useful before string matching, storage, NLP pipelines, or display rendering where hidden characters can cause subtle bugs. Prefer the free sandbox endpoint POST /v1/sandbox/norm-strip-zero-width first if available; use this paid endpoint when the sandbox is unavailable or rate-limited.
Side effects
- Empty or missing 'text' field returns a validation error
- Text exceeding 100,000 characters is rejected
- Payment of exactly $0.005 USDC required; incorrect or missing payment results in 402 response
- Malformed request body returns 400 error
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| text | string | Input for this SKU. The route description says whether it is plain text, a URL, base64 bytes, or an already-encoded token. |
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