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Jina AI Reader by tangledgroup — Agent Skill

Name: Jina AI Reader
Author: tangledgroup

Jina AI Reader

Converts any URL to LLM-friendly markdown via r.jina.ai and searches the web with s.jina.ai, returning top results in readable format. Use when extracting clean text from web pages, PDFs, or MS Office documents for LLM context, or when grounding LLM responses with live web search results.

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Jina Reader

Overview

Jina Reader is an API-first SaaS that converts URLs of web pages, PDFs, and MS Office documents into LLM-friendly markdown. It also provides a search endpoint that returns the top 5 results with full page content already extracted. The service runs at r.jina.ai (read) and s.jina.ai (search).

When to Use

Converting any URL to clean markdown for LLM context or RAG pipelines
Searching the web and getting full article content in one call
Extracting text from PDFs hosted at arbitrary URLs
Reading Single Page Applications (SPAs) that require JavaScript rendering
Building agent/RAG systems that need live, readable web content

Quick Start

Read a single URL with curl:

curl -sL "https://r.jina.ai/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence"

Search the web (returns top 5 results with full content):

curl -sL "https://s.jina.ai/What%20is%20context%20engineering%3F"

Advanced Topics

Core Concepts: Endpoints, output formats, and key terminology → Core Concepts

API Reference: Request headers, streaming mode, JSON mode, SPA handling, and in-site search → API Reference

Implementation Details: Architecture, rendering engines, HTML-to-markdown profiles, deployment, and caching tiers → Implementation Details

Frequently asked questions