tl;dr
tl;dr is a free Chrome extension and web app that generates AI-powered summaries of articles, videos, PDFs, and newsletters. Users install the extension, click the tl;dr button on any page, and get a concise bulleted summary they can save, share, or chat with. The public site (tl-dr.cc) hosts shareable summary pages and trending-article hubs organized by topic.
Product
- What tl;dr is: overview of the extension, web app, and how summaries are generated.
- FAQ: common questions answered on the website.
- FAQ (LLM format): common questions about accuracy, privacy, pricing, and supported content types.
- Support: get help or contact the team.
- Support (LLM format): how to get help, troubleshooting, and contact info.
- Privacy model: how we decide which summaries are public vs private.
Topics
- All topics: the full list of categories tl;dr uses to organize trending articles.
Individual summaries
Every public summary at tl-dr.cc/s/{slug} has a machine-readable markdown version:
https://llms.tl-dr.cc/s/{slug}— plain markdown with YAML frontmatter (title, source URL, date, type)
Trending
Live feeds of the most-summarized articles across all topics, updated hourly:
- Trending today: top articles summarized in the last 24 hours.
- Trending this week: top articles from the last 7 days.
- Trending this month: top articles from the last 30 days.
Stats
Backend data exposed for machine consumption:
- Site overview: totals, growth, active categories.
- Top domains: most-summarized publishers.
- Hot right now: articles with highest summary velocity in the last 24h.
- Category stats: counts and week-over-week growth per topic.
Policies
Full corpus
- llms.tl-dr.cc: markdown mirror of the whole site plus machine-readable stats, suitable for batch ingestion.
- llms-full.txt: everything above concatenated into a single plain-text file.