How does the skill access my newsletters?

The skill uses the gws-gmail tool to search for emails from dan@tldrnewsletter.com and filters them by specific sender names like 'TLDR AI' or 'TLDR Dev'.

Can I use this for TLDR categories other than AI?

Yes, it supports all major TLDR variants including Tech, Dev, Marketing, Fintech, InfoSec, Product, and Design by using specific Gmail search queries.

What happens if an article is behind a paywall?

The skill uses stealth-browser-mcp to bypass many common restrictions. If it still fails, it attempts a web search for the article title before falling back to the newsletter's original blurb.

Does it just summarize the email content?

No, it goes further by using a stealth browser to fetch the original article from the source URL to provide much more detailed and accurate summaries than the email blurb alone.

Which languages are supported for the summaries?

The skill is hardcoded to be bilingual, always producing two separate Markdown files: one in English and one in Chinese.

TLDR Newsletter Scraper & Summarizer

Name: TLDR Newsletter Scraper & Summarizer
Author: timothyxlu

bytimothyxlu

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Content Management

Extracts tech articles from TLDR newsletters in Gmail and generates detailed bilingual summaries in Markdown.

The TLDR Newsletter Scraper is a powerful workflow skill that automates the consumption of industry news. It searches your Gmail for the latest TLDR newsletters across various categories like AI, Dev, and Fintech, parses the article links, and uses a stealth browser to fetch the full original content. For every article, it generates both a concise takeaway and a deep-dive summary in English and Chinese, delivering them as organized Markdown files with foldable sections for a seamless reading experience.

Key Features

01Mandatory stealth browser integration to fetch full original article content for high-accuracy summarization.

02Automatic bilingual output generating separate English and Chinese Markdown reports for every run.

03Clean Markdown formatting with foldable details blocks and categorized headers for easy navigation.

04Dynamic summary scaling that adjusts the length of detailed summaries based on the original article's word count.

05Automated Gmail filtering for specific TLDR newsletter categories via sender display name verification.

060 GitHub stars

Use Cases

01Archiving high-quality, bilingual tech research in knowledge bases like Obsidian or Notion.

02Generating a comprehensive daily tech briefing from multiple newsletter sources without manual reading.

03Curating content for international teams by providing translated summaries of English tech news.

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add timothyxlu/timxlu-plugins tldr-scraper

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

Key Features

01Mandatory stealth browser integration to fetch full original article content for high-accuracy summarization.

02Automatic bilingual output generating separate English and Chinese Markdown reports for every run.

03Clean Markdown formatting with foldable details blocks and categorized headers for easy navigation.

04Dynamic summary scaling that adjusts the length of detailed summaries based on the original article's word count.

05Automated Gmail filtering for specific TLDR newsletter categories via sender display name verification.

060 GitHub stars

Use Cases

01Archiving high-quality, bilingual tech research in knowledge bases like Obsidian or Notion.

02Generating a comprehensive daily tech briefing from multiple newsletter sources without manual reading.

03Curating content for international teams by providing translated summaries of English tech news.