Why Raw HTML Is Burning Your Agent Tokens

aliscodes · x · 2026-07-20

A discussion about reducing token bloat in agent loops. The key point is that most scraping APIs return messy raw HTML, scripts, navigation junk, and cookie banners, and all of that ends up burning context tokens. The post argues that raw HTML is not actually useful data, and that cleaner extraction matters more for agent workflows.

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