Terms of Use

1. Scope

These terms cover reading, requesting, caching, synchronizing, displaying or analyzing RoboHot content through its public website, RSS feeds, public APIs, MCP, Agent Markdown, individual Markdown pages, downloads and other public entry points. Administration and unreleased entry points are outside the public service.

Public access requires no account or API key. Content-use permissions, third-party rights and technical access limits are addressed separately by these terms, the relevant source's license and the interface documentation.

2. Uses that do not require a separate application

The following uses are free and do not require a separate application:

• Personal non-commercial use: personal reading, subscriptions, research, private notes, private caches or analysis tools used only by you, without offering paid products, client deliverables or public data services.
• Non-commercial public-interest use: projects for education, research or public-interest discussion that charge no fees, carry no commercial advertising or sponsorship, and do not constitute the public mirrors, resale or bulk redistribution described below.
• Internal organizational use: briefings, internal indexes, internal knowledge bases, internal analysis or model-assisted retrieval for members of the same organization, without providing the material or service to clients, the public or other external organizations.

These uses may cache and synchronize internally under the interface rules. Preserve sources, original links and rights information in machine-readable responses. Crediting RoboHot and the original source in displays is encouraged; third-party attribution requirements still apply.

Apply under the next section before a project begins charging, carrying commercial advertising or sponsorship, supplying client deliverables or offering an external service.

3. Separate permission and applications

Advance written permission is required for using site content or data in external commercial products, client deliverables, public mirrors, resale, bulk public redistribution, or model training, fine-tuning or retrieval-augmented generation used to offer external services. Public mirrors and bulk public data services require a separate application even when free.

An application should identify the user or organization, product or project, intended use, intended audience or recipients, any fees or commercial sponsorship, any machine-readable interface, and the expected request volume, caching method and contact channel. Describe your use by emailing jason.sun299@outlook.com or through the feedback page.

Where separate permission is required, the scope, duration and conditions must be explicitly confirmed in writing by the operator. Submitting an application, discussing a proposal, accessing an interface or crediting RoboHot does not itself constitute permission.

4. Content, sources and branding

RoboHot provides news summaries and a reading index. Third-party articles, images, videos, trademarks, code and other material remain subject to their respective rights and licenses; permission to use this service does not replace permission from the source. Full text is displayed only within the source's permitted scope; otherwise, we provide a summary and a link to the original.

Preserve source, canonical URL, original-link and rights information included in machine-readable responses. Attribution and branding requirements for public displays follow these terms or a separate written agreement. Do not falsify sources, hide rights information or imply official endorsement, partnership or certification without consent.

An open-source license for project code covers only the code and files it expressly identifies. It does not automatically cover website outputs, the ongoing service, databases, quotas, RoboHot branding or third-party material.

5. Interfaces, caching and security

Follow response Cache-Control, ETag and Retry-After instructions, and use If-None-Match, pagination and incremental cursors as documented. When rate-limited, wait as instructed and avoid concurrent retries or repeated downloads of unchanged content.

Do not bypass rate limits, caching, source-license gates, authentication or other access controls, including by rotating identities, using proxy pools or splitting requests. Do not deliberately exhaust resources, disrupt the website or use the service to infringe others' rights.

6. Corrections, withdrawals and removal

Sources and other rights holders may request corrections, removal or changes to display through the feedback page. Provide the relevant item and original links, your reason, supporting rights or factual information, and a contact channel for a response. We will review the request and respond according to the circumstances, asking for further information when needed.

When RoboHot withdraws, deletes, corrects or restricts content, users should update their online copies, indexes and downstream displays accordingly. Backup copies follow the agreed secure replacement cycle and should not be used to restore withdrawn public displays. A separate permission agreement may specify additional arrangements.

7. Automated processing and information quality

Title summarization, translation, summaries, recommendation reasons, classification, scoring, event grouping, trend rankings and editions may be produced by automated systems or generative models and may also receive editorial corrections. Content may contain mistranslations, numerical or unit errors, omissions, bias, delays or loss of context.

Check important information against the original source. Scores, selection and grouping do not endorse a source's views, a product, a company or its investment value, and do not guarantee that an item is complete, accurate or remains current.

8. Service changes and availability

The service is provided as is, without a guarantee of absolute accuracy, completeness, timeliness or uninterrupted availability. Interface quotas, caching, ranking, content scope and versions may change to maintain security, stability, source rights and service capacity.

Published compatibility and migration arrangements follow their corresponding documentation. Changes that materially affect ordinary integrations will be explained through appropriate website or machine-readable channels.

9. Privacy and updates

See the Privacy Notice for how we handle browser data, search requests, analytics, feedback, administrator sessions and operational logs.

Updates will include revised version and effective details. Chinese and English should describe the same permitted uses; report inconsistencies through the feedback page. Matters covered by an existing written permission agreement follow the documents confirmed by the parties.