# Web Distillation with BM25 Budget Control

> Web Distillation with BM25 Budget Control is a paid API for AI agents from x402-audit.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Fetches a URL or accepts raw HTML and distills it into compact, token-efficient output with optional BM25-ranked budget capping for query-focused extraction

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402-audit.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: x402-audit.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://x402-audit.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-audit-agentdiet-dev-web-distillation-with-bm25-budget-control-7c5e94ac
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_wCzXFXVHDUAYjltKEhNzf

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 x402-audit-agentdiet-dev-web-distillation-with-bm25-budget-control-7c5e94ac -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Distill https://stripe.com/docs/payments/payment-intents into compact markdown, using budget mode focused on the query 'how to confirm a payment intent', and cap it at 500 tokens.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to read a webpage or HTML document within a strict token budget, especially for LLM pipelines where context window cost matters. The BM25 budget mode is uniquely useful when you have a specific question and want only the most relevant excerpts rather than the full page. Prefer this over generic scrapers when token efficiency, ROI reporting, and multiple distillation modes (markdown, structured, skeleton, budget) are important to your workflow.

## Known failure modes

- URL is unreachable or returns non-200 — fetch failure error
- HTML is malformed or empty — distillation returns empty or minimal output
- mode=budget used without a query — BM25 ranking cannot proceed without a focus query
- max_tokens set below minimum of 20 — validation error
- Payment not provided or insufficient — HTTP 402 response blocking execution
- Target page is behind authentication — content inaccessible for 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://x402-audit.agentdiet.dev/v1/distill)

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing distilled content (markdown, structured tables/metadata, skeleton outline, or BM25 budget excerpt depending on mode), plus an ROI proof showing raw vs. distilled token counts, compression ratio, tokens saved, and estimated LLM cost saved in USD. Also includes 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

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