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BudgetBro is a travel budgeting app for backpackers and digital nomads. This page lists the public ways to read BudgetBro content in code, and how AI assistants connect to a user's own data over the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The read-only content endpoints need no API key.

Machine-readable files

OpenAPI specification
/openapi.json
Machine-readable description of every public REST endpoint (OpenAPI 3.1). Feed this to an LLM to enable function calling.
AI facts endpoint
/api/ai
Structured JSON profile: pricing, features, platforms, competitor comparison and a full article index.
llms.txt
/llms.txt
Curated company profile plus a live index of every published article (llmstxt.org convention).
llms-full.txt
/llms-full.txt
The full knowledge base in one file for retrieval and grounding.
MCP manifest
/.well-known/mcp
Discovery manifest for the BudgetBro MCP server.
Sitemap
/sitemap.xml
Every canonical URL on the site.
RSS feed
/feed.xml
Latest published articles as RSS.

Public REST API

Read-only JSON over HTTPS. Base URL https://budgetbro.app. Responses are cached at the edge. Response schemas are in the OpenAPI specification.

GET/api/ai

Structured product facts for AI grounding (no parameters).

curl https://budgetbro.app/api/ai

GET/api/blog/posts

Paginated list of published BudgetBro articles.

page 1-based page number (default 1).
limit Posts per page, 1-100 (default 12).
category Filter by category slug, e.g. guides.
tag Filter by tag slug.
recent true to only return posts from the last 30 days.
recentDays Override the recency window in days.

curl "https://budgetbro.app/api/blog/posts?category=guides&limit=5"

GET/api/blog/feed

Merged recent feed: BudgetBro posts interleaved with curated third-party link-outs (each item has a type of post or external).

limit Max items, 1-50 (default 20).
recentDays Recency window for our posts (default 30).

curl "https://budgetbro.app/api/blog/feed?limit=20"

GET/api/blog/around-the-web

Curated third-party travel articles (excerpt + source + outbound link).

limit Max items, 1-50 (default 20).

curl "https://budgetbro.app/api/blog/around-the-web?limit=10"

GET/blog/{slug}.md

A single published article as Markdown, for retrieval and grounding.

curl https://budgetbro.app/blog/dtvvisaguidethailand.md

Markdown versions

Every article is available as Markdown. Add .md to any article URL, or request the normal URL with an Accept: text/markdown header. The homepage responds to the same header. Responses set Vary: Accept.

curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://budgetbro.app/blog/dtvvisaguidethailand

Connect an AI assistant

Our budgetbro-mcp server gives AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT access to a connected user's expenses, budgets, subscriptions and trips, and can log expenses from a plain-English message. Create a connection token in BudgetBro Web settings , then add the snippet below to your MCP client config. More in the MCP overview and the discovery manifest.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "budgetbro": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "budgetbro-mcp"],
      "env": { "BBRO_CONNECTION_TOKEN": "<your token>" }
    }
  }
}

Contact

Questions, or want to build on BudgetBro? Email support@budgetbro.app.