tldr-radio
by mat-nolen
TLDR Radio is a self-hosted web app that turns the daily TLDR tech newsletters into chaptered podcast-style audio episodes. It fetches the public archive pages, builds a script from templates and reads it aloud with a local text-to-speech model, with no language model rewriting the text.
Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).
- Stars
- 111
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- A small server
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- Python
- Age
- 84 days
What you can do with it
- Pick a date and generate audio episodes of the TLDR newsletters, with one chapter per story
- Schedule overnight builds so the day's episodes are ready to play in the morning
- Download an episode as a single tagged mp3 to use in a podcast or audiobook app
Ways a business could use it
- Keep up with industry tech news by ear while travelling or working, saving reading time
- Adapt the pipeline as a starting point for turning other public, structured newsletters into audio for a team
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Clone the repository and run "make up" or "docker compose up -d --build", then open localhost:7777; the first run downloads about 5 GB.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Depends on the structure of the public TLDR archive pages, so a layout change could break parsing
- Large first download of about 5 GB
- Content belongs to TLDR, so check their terms before sharing the audio publicly
Who's talking about it
Checked 30 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
