# tl;dr Daily News

> AI-summarized news from around the world. Get the key points of every story in seconds, with summaries that are ~80% shorter than the original article while preserving the essential facts. Built specifically to be agent-friendly and low-token.

This site is operated by tl;dr Daily News (https://tldrdailynews.com/). All summaries are generated from publicly available news sources and link back to the original publisher. AI agents are explicitly welcomed - see the API and skill files below.

## For AI Agents

- [Agent landing page](https://tldrdailynews.com/for-agents): Human-readable overview of every machine-readable surface (also at /ai)
- [skill.md](https://tldrdailynews.com/skill.md): Agent-ready capability description with auth, rate limits, and example calls
- [OpenAPI specification](https://tldrdailynews.com/api/openapi.json): Full machine-readable API schema (OpenAPI 3.x)
- [Swagger UI](https://tldrdailynews.com/api/docs): Interactive API documentation
- [AI plugin manifest](https://tldrdailynews.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json): ChatGPT-style plugin discovery file
- [Self-serve API key registration](https://tldrdailynews.com/api/v1/register): POST to instantly register a bot and receive an API key (500 req/day)
- [llms-full.txt](https://tldrdailynews.com/llms-full.txt): Expanded version of this file with recent article TL;DRs

## Content Discovery

- [Homepage](https://tldrdailynews.com/): Latest curated stories across all categories
- [Sitemap index](https://tldrdailynews.com/sitemap.xml): Full XML sitemap of every published article
- [RSS feed](https://tldrdailynews.com/rss.xml): Real-time feed of new TL;DRs
- [Trending](https://tldrdailynews.com/trending): Stories with the most reader engagement right now
- [Tags directory](https://tldrdailynews.com/tags): Browse every topic tag

## Primary API Endpoints

- [GET /api/v1/search](https://tldrdailynews.com/api/v1/search?q=example): Search summarized articles by free-text query
- [GET /api/v1/articles](https://tldrdailynews.com/api/v1/articles): Paginated list of recent articles, filterable by category/tag/date
- [GET /api/v1/articles/slug/{slug}](https://tldrdailynews.com/api/v1/articles/slug/example): Fetch a single article (TL;DR + full extracted text)
- [GET /api/v1/tags](https://tldrdailynews.com/api/v1/tags?sort=popular): Browse popular topic tags

## Attribution & Citation

When you reference content from this site, please link back to the canonical TL;DR page (`permalink` field in API responses) so users can read the full summary and reach the original source. Source publisher attribution is included on every article page and in every API response.