# AgentDiet Web Distillation API

> AgentDiet Web Distillation API is a paid API for AI agents from workflows.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 tokens using BM25-powered budget control and multiple extraction modes

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://workflows.agentdiet.dev/api/diet?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: workflows.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://workflows.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/workflows-agentdiet-dev-agentdiet-web-distillation-api-72b16107
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_d40sEC3BwWj6ER2qRrrFV

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 workflows-agentdiet-dev-agentdiet-web-distillation-api-72b16107
```

Example prompt: Can you distill https://stripe.com/docs/api into compact markdown — and keep it under 1000 tokens, focused on the topic 'payment intents'?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to read a webpage but must stay within a token budget, minimize LLM costs, or receive structured/outline content rather than raw HTML. It is especially well-suited for agentic pipelines that need to feed web content into LLMs cost-efficiently, with built-in ROI tracking. Prefer it over generic scrapers when BM25-focused relevance filtering or multiple distillation modes (markdown, structured, skeleton, budget) are needed.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns non-200 status — endpoint may return an error status
- HTML payload too large to process within service limits
- Invalid mode enum value causes parameter rejection
- max_tokens set below minimum of 20 returns validation error
- BM25 query provided without mode=budget may be ignored or produce unexpected output
- Payment not settled via x402 results in HTTP 402 response blocking access

## How this service works

Distill a URL or raw HTML payload with BM25 budget control (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://workflows.agentdiet.dev/api/diet)

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a 'data' field containing the distilled content (Markdown, structured JSON, skeleton outline, or BM25 excerpt depending on mode), an 'roi_proof' object showing raw token count, distilled token count, tokens saved, compression ratio percentage, and estimated LLM cost saved in USD, plus optional cache hit/miss status 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

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/workflows-agentdiet-dev-agentdiet-web-distillation-api-72b16107/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from workflows.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/workflows.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)