You can access the Visual TL;DR Diagram programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = { "articles": [{
9            "title": "Why latency kills agents",
10            "content_html": "<p>Paste the full article HTML or text here.</p>",
11            "source_url": "",
12        }] }
13
14# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
15run = client.actor("startuphub/visual-tldr").call(run_input=run_input)
16
17# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
18print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
19for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
20    print(item)
21
22# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Visual TL;DR Diagram - summarize any article API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Visual TL;DR Diagram API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Visual TL;DR Diagram API in JavaScript

Visual TL;DR Diagram API through CLI

Visual TL;DR Diagram OpenAPI definition

Visual TL;DR Diagram API

Article Summarizer (Claude — TL;DR + Bullets + Topics)

gochujang/article-summarizer

Pass any URL or text — get back a tight summary in your chosen style (TL;DR / bullets / executive / tweet) plus topic tags + sentiment. Article body auto-extracted via trafilatura. BYO Anthropic API key. $0.005 per summary, Claude tokens billed by Anthropic.

Hojun Lee

remax-scraper-dr

charmed_welcome/remax-scraper-dr

Diego Peguero

Web Page to Markdown & Text - URL Reader for LLMs & RAG

entranced_gelato/ai-web-page-reader

Read any web page as clean text + Markdown for LLMs and automations. Strips ads, nav, and scripts; returns the main content, metadata (title, author, date, word count), and an optional AI TL;DR + key points. The web-reading primitive for AI agents, RAG pipelines, and no-code flows.

AIDevs

AI Translator, Summarizer & Rewriter

jungle_synthesizer/ai-content-translator-summarizer

Transform any URL or text — translate, summarize, rewrite, extract key points, or TL;DR. URL inputs auto-extract to clean text. No API key needed. Token + cost accounting in every dataset row. Local cache for repeat inputs.

BowTiedRaccoon

YouTube to Article

startuphub/youtube-to-article

Turn any YouTube video into a clean, SEO-ready article: title, HTML, Markdown, JSON-LD, and a featured image.

StartupHub

Dr. Squatch Scraper

mshopik/dr-squatch-scraper

Scrape Dr. Squatch and extract data on hygiene and toiletries from drsquatch.com. Our Dr. Squatch API lets you crawl product information and pricing. The saved data can be downloaded as HTML, JSON, CSV, Excel, and XML.

Mark Carter

Reddit Post Comments Summarizer

rainminer/reddit-post-comments-summarizer

Paste a Reddit post URL and get an AI-generated TL;DR of the discussion. Comments are fetched via solidcode/reddit-scraper; this Actor produces the summary. No Reddit credentials required from users.

rainminer

Mermaid Diagram Actor

lolletto/mermaid-diagram-actor

Convert Text description or Mermaid code to PNG, SVG, or PDF images. Flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts, ER diagrams and more.

Lorenzo De Martinis

Mermaid Diagram Actor

salesmart-srl/mermaid-diagram-actor

Convert Text description or Mermaid code to PNG, SVG, or PDF images. Flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts, ER diagrams and more.

Salesmart Srl

tl;dv Video Downloader (TLDV Google Meet Recording Download)

madeingermany/tldv-video-downloader

Downloads Google Meet's meeting recordings from tl;dv using meeting URLs and auth tokens. Bulk upload meeting links, allows multiple concurrent meetings to be downloaded. $5 per meeting :)