# Web URL Distiller & Article Extractor (AgentDiet)

> Web URL Distiller & Article Extractor (AgentDiet) 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 compresses it into compact, agent-ready tokens using markdown, structured, skeleton, or BM25 budget modes

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://workflows.agentdiet.dev/v1/article-extractor?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-web-url-distiller-article-extractor-agentdiet-aab22b12
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_sSac2MMlJW3WP7jQBFaAK

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-web-url-distiller-article-extractor-agentdiet-aab22b12
```

Example prompt: Distill this article URL into clean markdown and keep it under 800 tokens, focusing on anything about AI agent costs: https://example.com/ai-agents-cost-analysis

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to feed web page content to an LLM but want to minimize token usage and cost — especially with the budget mode and BM25 query focus for targeted extraction. Prefer it over generic scrapers when ROI proof (compression ratio, cost saved) matters to your pipeline, or when you need multiple output formats (markdown, structured, skeleton) from the same fetch. Best suited for AI agent workflows that must stay within strict context windows.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error status
- Paywalled or bot-blocked pages may return empty or partial content
- mode=budget without a query or max_tokens may return unfiltered output
- Extremely large HTML payloads may exceed processing limits
- x402 payment failure if agent lacks sufficient USDC balance
- Malformed HTML input may produce garbled distillation

## 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/v1/article-extractor)

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a 'data' field containing distilled content (markdown text, structured JSON tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25 budget excerpt depending on mode), plus an 'roi_proof' object showing raw_tokens, distilled_tokens, tokens_saved, compression_ratio_pct, and llm_cost_saved_usd, and optional cache hit/miss info 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-web-url-distiller-article-extractor-agentdiet-aab22b12/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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