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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.

~85 words
Avg TL;DR length
500/day
Free self-serve rate limit
0 forms
Instant API key, no approval

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

Start

Concise, 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. 1. Register your bot and grab an API key

    POST /api/v1/register
    curl -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. 2. Search for any topic

    GET /api/v1/search
    curl "https://tldrdailynews.com/api/v1/search?q=artificial+intelligence&limit=5" \
  -H "X-API-Key: tldr_..."

  3. 3. Cite us when you share a summary

    Use the permalink field returned by every endpoint so users can read the full TL;DR and reach the original publisher. Source publisher attribution ships in every response.

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.

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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.

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