Originally published at linkdigest.dev, where I build this.
The problem, in one paragraph
Paste a Xiaohongshu, Douyin, TikTok, YouTube or X link into an AI agent and it fetches the URL, gets an app-download shell or a login wall, and tells you there is nothing there. It is not wrong. The content of those posts is video, images, and text printed inside images, behind tokenised share links — none of it is in the HTML a fetch returns. Strip the <script> tags from a real Xiaohongshu note and 264 characters of navigation are left.
What LinkDigest does about it
LinkDigest is a hosted reader: one call turns the link into text an LLM can use — a transcript with timecodes, the on-screen text, a description and OCR of every image, the caption and metadata — as Markdown or JSON. It is an MCP server (claude mcp add --transport http linkdigest https://linkdigest.dev/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer $KEY"), a REST API, and a web console. Measured on a 17-image Xiaohongshu note: 17 images described and read, 381 on-screen text fragments, 13 key points, 119 seconds. Three digests are free, no card.
