smry - Bypass Paywalls & Read Full Articles Free

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Watch SMRY bypass a real paywall, clean the clutter, and summarize in under 5 seconds.

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Works when other tools don't

We fetch from 3 sources simultaneously. If one is blocked, another gets through.

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Frequently Asked Questions

There are two types of paywalls: hard paywalls and soft paywalls. Hard paywalls don't expose content to the client until you subscribe, so they can't be bypassed with traditional methods. Most sites use soft paywalls, where content is accessible but blocked by popups or only exposed to certain user agents like Googlebot. SMRY tries multiple methods: directly fetching from the original URL (smry-fast), a proxy (smry-slow), and fetching from Wayback Machine archives. We make all requests in parallel to save you time.
If a site needs to show content to search engines for SEO, it likely uses a soft paywall that can be bypassed. If some content is visible but part is obstructed, it's often a soft paywall. If no content is visible at all, it's likely a hard paywall. Hard paywalls are common for subscription services like Patreon, OnlyFans, or download-only content. If SMRY or other bypass tools don't work, that's a strong sign it's a hard paywall.
SMRY tries multiple sources in parallel: directly fetching from the original URL (smry-fast), a proxy (smry-slow), and fetching from Wayback Machine archives. We make all requests in parallel to save you time. We also show you which source successfully provided the content, so you can try different options if one fails.
Yes! SMRY is completely open source. You can view the code, contribute, or run your own instance at https://github.com/mrmps/SMRY.
Summaries are generated in seconds using AI. We cache summaries to provide instant results for articles that have been summarized before.
Summaries are available in 8 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese. Select your preferred language when generating a summary.
Yes, to ensure fair usage, there are rate limits: 20 summaries per day and 6 summaries per minute per IP address.
You have three options:
  1. Prepend smry.ai/ to any article URL. For example: smry.ai/news-site.com/article
  2. Paste a URL directly on smry.ai and we'll fetch it for you.
  3. Drag the bookmarklet on our homepage to your bookmarks bar; tapping it wraps whatever page you're on in SMRY.
SMRY works with most websites that use soft paywalls. Hard paywalls (like Patreon, OnlyFans, or sites that require login to download files) cannot be bypassed. We use multiple content sources in parallel to maximize success rates across different types of paywalls.

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