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Summarize

Summaries of web pages, videos, podcasts, and files from a CLI or browser

  • AI apps
  • Productivity
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What it is

A command-line tool and Chrome/Firefox side panel that pulls clean text from web pages, PDFs, images, YouTube videos, podcasts, and other media, then summarizes it with a model of your choice. It prefers published transcripts, falls back to local or cloud transcription, and can extract timestamped video slides with optional OCR. Readers and researchers who want the gist of long content use it with API providers, Ollama, OpenRouter, or an authenticated coding CLI, and developers can call the extraction core as an npm library or get JSON output for scripts.

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Stars
6,727 GitHub stars.
6,727

Forks
455
Commits
2,259
Contributors
60
Language
TypeScript
License
MIT
Last commit
Oct 19, 2026
On GitHub since
December 2025
First release
December 2025
Platforms
macOS, Windows, Linux, CLI, library
Self-hostable
No
Alternative to
Glasp, Eightify
Author
Peter Steinberger
Tags
  • research-tools
  • ocr
  • document-parsing
  • speech-to-text
  • web-scraping
  • browser-extension

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  • Bluesky“Universal summarizer that turns any URL, YouTube video, podcast, or file into concise summaries via CLI and Chrome extension with streaming AI chat…”Feb 18, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“GitHub - steipete/summarize: Point at any URL/YouTube/Podcast or file. Get the gist. CLI and Chr...”Feb 22, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Summarize turns links, files, and media into sharp summaries with a real extraction pipeline #devopsish”Feb 19, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“steipete/summarize Point at any URL/YouTube/Podcast or file. Get the gist. CLI and Chrome Extension. Summarize 📝 — Chrome Side Panel + CLI Fast summaries from…”Feb 18, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)