sosumi.ai

Making Apple docs AI-readable.

sosumi.ai provides Apple Developer documentation in an AI-readable format by converting JavaScript-rendered pages into Markdown.

Usage

HTTP API

Replace developer.apple.com with sosumi.ai in any Apple Developer documentation URL:

Original:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/array

AI-readable:

https://sosumi.ai/documentation/swift/array

This works for all API reference docs, as well as Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG).

WWDC session transcripts are also supported by replacing the same host for video URLs:

Original:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10133/

AI-readable:

https://sosumi.ai/videos/play/wwdc2021/10133

Sosumi can also proxy public non-Apple Swift-DocC pages using:

Original:

https://apple.github.io/swift-argument-parser/documentation/argumentparser

AI-readable:

https://sosumi.ai/external/https://apple.github.io/swift-argument-parser/documentation/argumentparser

[!NOTE] Sosumi resolves the URL to the site's underlying DocC JSON endpoint and renders Markdown, preserving any base path from the original URL. External hosts can opt out via robots.txt by disallowing user-agent sosumi-ai (full UA: sosumi-ai/1.0 (+https://sosumi.ai/#bot)). See /bot for the crawler policy and contact details.

MCP Integration

Sosumi's MCP server supports Streamable HTTP and Server-Sent Events (SSE) transport. If your client supports either of these, configure it to connect directly to https://sosumi.ai/mcp.

Otherwise, you can run this command to proxy over stdio:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sosumi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://sosumi.ai/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

See the website for client-specific instructions.

Available Tools

• searchAppleDocumentation - Searches Apple Developer documentation

  • Parameters: query (string)
  • Returns structured results with titles, URLs, descriptions, breadcrumbs, and tags

• fetchAppleDocumentation - Fetches Apple Developer documentation and Human Interface Guidelines by path

  • Parameters: path (string) - Documentation path (e.g., '/documentation/swift', 'swiftui/view', 'design/human-interface-guidelines/foundations/color')
  • Returns content as Markdown

• fetchAppleVideoTranscript - Fetches video transcripts, including WWDC sessions

  • Parameters: path (string) - video path (e.g., /videos/play/wwdc2021/10133)
  • Returns transcript content as Markdown

• fetchExternalDocumentation - Fetches external Swift-DocC documentation by absolute HTTPS URL

  • Parameters: url (string) - External URL (e.g., https://apple.github.io/swift-argument-parser/documentation/argumentparser)
  • Returns content as Markdown

CLI

Sosumi also provides a CLI that complements MCP:

npx @nshipster/sosumi fetch https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/array

If you use it regularly, install once:

npm i -g @nshipster/sosumi

Then use sosumi directly:

sosumi fetch https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/array

You can fetch all content types covered by MCP tools:

# Apple documentation / HIG / videos
sosumi fetch /documentation/swift/array
sosumi fetch /design/human-interface-guidelines/color
sosumi fetch /videos/play/wwdc2021/10133

# External Swift-DocC pages
sosumi fetch https://apple.github.io/swift-argument-parser/documentation/argumentparser

# Apple documentation search
sosumi search "SwiftData"

Run a local server from the published package:

sosumi serve
sosumi serve --port 8787

By default, output is plain text / Markdown. Use JSON output for scripts:

sosumi fetch https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/array --json
sosumi search "SwiftData" --json

Chrome Extension

You can also use Sosumi from a community-contributed Chrome extension, which adds a "Copy sosumi Link" button to Apple Developer documentation pages. Source code is available on GitHub.

Self-Hosting

This project is designed to be easily run on your own machine or deployed to a hosting provider.

Sosumi.ai is currently hosted by Cloudflare Workers.

[!NOTE]
The application is built with Hono, making it compatible with various runtimes.

See the Hono docs for more information about deploying to different platforms.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+
• npm

Quick Start

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/nshipster/sosumi.ai.git
   cd sosumi.ai

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Start development server:

   npm run dev

Once the application is up and running, press the b to open the URL in your browser.

To configure MCP clients to use your development server, replace sosumi.ai with the local server address (http://localhost:8787 by default).

External Host Restrictions

You can restrict which external Swift-DocC hosts are reachable with two environment variables (both newline-delimited):

• EXTERNAL_DOC_HOST_ALLOWLIST — only listed hosts are permitted
• EXTERNAL_DOC_HOST_BLOCKLIST — listed hosts are always denied

[!IMPORTANT] Hostname-based private-network checks cannot fully prevent DNS rebinding. Set an explicit EXTERNAL_DOC_HOST_ALLOWLIST in production.

Development

Testing

This project uses vitest for unit and integration testing.

npm run test          # Run tests
npm run test:ui       # Run tests with UI
npm run test:run      # Run tests once

[!TIP] When running the CLI through npm scripts during local development, use -s (--silent) to suppress npm's script preamble so output pipes cleanly:

npm run -s cli -- fetch https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/array | bat -l md

Code Quality

This project uses Biome for code formatting, linting, and import organization.

• npm run format - Format all code files
• npm run lint - Lint and fix code issues
• npm run check - Format, lint, and organize imports (recommended)
• npm run check:ci - Check code without making changes (for CI)

Editor Integration

For the best development experience, install the Biome extension for your editor:

• VSCode
• Vim/Neovim
• Emacs

Cloudflare Workers

Whenever you update your wrangler.toml or change your Worker bindings, be sure to re-run:

npm run cf-typegen

Publishing

Publishing is handled by .github/workflows/release.yml.

• Trigger: pushed tags matching v* or manual dispatch with tag
• Release step: gh release create "$TAG_NAME" --generate-notes
• Publish auth: npm trusted publishing via OIDC (id-token: write)
• Publish command: npm publish --provenance --access public

License

This project is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.

Legal

This is an unofficial, independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. "Apple", "Xcode", and related marks are trademarks of Apple Inc.

This service is an accessibility-first, on‑demand renderer. It converts a single Apple Developer page to Markdown only when requested by a user. It does not crawl, spider, or bulk download; it does not attempt to bypass authentication or security; and it implements rate limiting to avoid imposing unreasonable load.

For external Swift-DocC hosts, access can be denied by robots.txt and opt-out response directives such as X-Robots-Tag: noai.

Content is fetched transiently and may be cached briefly to improve performance. No permanent archives are maintained. All copyrights and other rights in the underlying content remain with Apple Inc. Each page links back to the original source.

Your use of this service must comply with Apple's Terms of Use and applicable law. You are solely responsible for how you access and use Apple's content through this tool. Do not use this service to circumvent technical measures or for redistribution.

Contact: [email protected]