# Web Distillation with BM25 Budget Control

> Web Distillation with BM25 Budget Control is a paid API for AI agents from whale-momentum.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Fetches and distills a URL or raw HTML into clean Markdown, structured JSON, skeleton outline, or a BM25-ranked token-budgeted excerpt

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://whale-momentum.agentdiet.dev/v1/distill?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: whale-momentum.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://whale-momentum.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/whale-momentum-agentdiet-dev-web-distillation-with-bm25-budget-control-847a3290
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rALwbQQumCdzEXeQt4f20

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 whale-momentum-agentdiet-dev-web-distillation-with-bm25-budget-control-847a3290 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Distill https://stripe.com/docs/payments into clean markdown, then give me a BM25-focused excerpt about 'webhook events' within a 500-token budget so I can fit it into my LLM context window.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to reduce the token footprint of web content before feeding it to an LLM, especially when working with large documentation pages, e-commerce sites, or arbitrary URLs. The BM25 budget mode is uniquely useful when you have a strict token ceiling and a specific focus query. Prefer this over generic scrapers when you need compression ROI metrics, structured JSON table output, or skeleton outlines rather than raw HTML dumps.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns non-200 — distillation fails with network error
- HTML payload is empty or malformed — returns parse error
- max_tokens set too low (below 20) — rejected by schema validation
- BM25 query provided without mode=budget — query may be ignored
- Rate limiting or payment failure via x402 — 402 Payment Required response
- Timeout on slow remote pages — partial or no content returned

## How this service works

Distill a URL or raw HTML payload with BM25 budget control (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://whale-momentum.agentdiet.dev/v1/distill)

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a 'data' field containing the distilled content (Markdown string, structured JSON tables, skeleton outline, or BM25-ranked excerpt depending on mode), plus an 'roi_proof' object showing raw_tokens, distilled_tokens, tokens_saved, compression_ratio_pct, roi_multiplier, and llm_cost_saved_usd. Also includes cache status (HIT/MISS) and billing details.

## 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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