# TV Ipsum

> Placeholder text (lorem ipsum) made from the theme songs of 70s and 80s television, on a 1970s console TV. Public, free, no key.

The page at https://tvipsum.com is a desktop-only console TV: turn the channel dial and copy the text as plain text, HTML or Markdown. Agents should use the API or the MCP server instead of the page.

## Get text

- [API](https://tvipsum.com/api?format=md): `GET /api` with `paragraphs` (1 to 12), `format` (text, html, md, json), `channel`, `length` (short, medium, long), `headings`, `lists`, `quotes` and `seed`. Open CORS.
- [OpenAPI description](https://tvipsum.com/openapi.json): the full API contract.
- [MCP server](https://tvipsum.com/mcp): Streamable HTTP, no auth. Tools `generate_ipsum`, `describe_options` (every format and option, with word counts) and `list_channels`. Server card at https://tvipsum.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
- [Agent skill](https://tvipsum.com/.well-known/agent-skills/tv-ipsum/SKILL.md): how to use both, with examples.

Paragraphs average about 18 words short, 32 medium and 47 long; 1 to 12 paragraphs per call. The same seed and settings always give the same text, and every result links to a tvipsum.com page that shows it.

## Channels

- 2: The Whole Dial
- 4: Classic Reruns
- 5: Seventies Sitcoms
- 6: Eighties Sitcoms
- 7: Saturday Morning (cartoons before 1980)
- 8: Afternoon Cartoons (1980 on)
- 10: Kids & Variety
- 11: Space Age
- 12: Action & Adventure
- 13: Sign-Off

## About

Designed by Nathan Ingram. The original TV Ipsum ran from 2011 to 2019; this is a new build.