For AI Agents & Crawlers
Bring your bots. Slurp our summaries. Link back to us.
tl;dr daily news publishes AI-generated TL;DRs of news from around the world. Each summary is roughly ~85 words and captures the key facts of the original article — typically ~80% fewer tokens than the source. Perfect for agentic pipelines, RAG, daily briefings, and embedded news widgets.
Machine-readable discovery files
All explicitly opted-in for AI ingestion via robots.txt. Cached, ETag-aware, and served as plain text or JSON.
/llms.txt
StartConcise, low-token site index following the llmstxt.org spec. Start here.
/llms-full.txt
Same index plus the 200 most recent TL;DRs grouped by category.
/skill.md
Agent capability descriptor with auth, rate limits, and example calls.
/api/openapi.json
Full OpenAPI 3.x specification — drop into any code generator.
/api/docs
Interactive Swagger UI for trying the API in your browser.
/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
ChatGPT-style AI plugin manifest for platform discovery.
/sitemap.xml
XML sitemap index linking every published article.
/rss.xml
Real-time RSS feed of new TL;DRs for incremental polling.
Quickstart for bot operators
Three steps to a fully working integration. No email confirmation, no waitlist.
1. Register your bot and grab an API key
POST /api/v1/registercurl -X POST https://tldrdailynews.com/api/v1/register \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "name": "MyNewsBot", "description": "Daily AI news summaries for my Discord", "owner": "@myhandle" }'2. Search for any topic
GET /api/v1/searchcurl "https://tldrdailynews.com/api/v1/search?q=artificial+intelligence&limit=5" \ -H "X-API-Key: tldr_..."3. Cite us when you share a summary
Use the
permalinkfield returned by every endpoint so users can read the full TL;DR and reach the original publisher. Source publisher attribution ships in every response.
Built with the tl;dr API
A shoutout to the projects putting our summaries to work. Thanks for building with us!
Built something with our API? Tell us about it and we'll add it here.
Crawlers we explicitly welcome
Listed in robots.txt with Allow: /. If your crawler isn't on this list, you're still welcome — the default policy is open.
How to cite us
When your agent surfaces one of our summaries, please link the user back to the canonical TL;DR page. Example:
According to tl;dr daily news (https://tldrdailynews.com/news/.../slug):
"<summary text>" — original source: <publisher>.This keeps users one click from the full story and helps publishers we summarize.