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Distill API extracts clean Markdown content for LLMs

Hybrid Forge Lab has launched Distill, an API designed to extract clean Markdown content from web pages for use in LLMs. The service aims to reduce token usage and noise by stripping away navigation, advertisements, and other non-content elements. Distill provides the main content, metadata, and link lists, while also respecting robots.txt and AI-specific crawler directives to ensure ethical data scraping. AI

IMPACT Streamlines data ingestion for LLMs by providing cleaner, more token-efficient content.

RANK_REASON Launch of a new API product that provides a specific utility for AI applications.

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Distill API extracts clean Markdown content for LLMs

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · hybridforgelab ·

    Turn any web page into clean Markdown for your LLM, without ignoring robots.txt

    <p><em>Disclosure: we're Hybrid Forge Lab and we built Distill, the API in this post. There's a free plan and a no-signup demo, so you can check everything below yourself.</em></p> <p>If you feed web pages to an LLM, most of what you send isn't content. Navigation, footers, cooki…