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Summarize
Summarize is a command-line tool and Chrome side panel that extracts clean text and generates summaries from web pages, files, videos, and podcasts.
Summarize is a fast command-line interface and Chrome side panel designed for clean extraction and sharp summaries of web pages, files, YouTube videos, and podcasts. It runs a real pipeline first using Readability for articles, markitdown for files, transcript fetchers and Whisper for media, and Firecrawl as a fallback, then hands the result to a model of choice. Users can wire up local, paid, and free models including xAI, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, NVIDIA, Z.AI, OpenRouter, GitHub Copilot, Ollama, and various local CLI providers. The tool offers shaped output formats like streamed ANSI Markdown, plain text, and JSON envelopes, plus video slide extraction for scene-change keyframes. It is released under the MIT license and intended for users who need quick content extraction and summaries from diverse media types.
Summarize at a glance
- Best for: Researcher, Student, Writer
- Runs on: Web, Chrome extension, CLI
- Pricing: Free
- Released: December 2025
- Category: AI productivity tool
- Website: summarize.sh
Key features
- Clean extraction for articles, files, and media
- Media-aware processing for YouTube and podcasts
- Provider-agnostic model integration
- Shaped output in ANSI Markdown, plain text, or JSON
- Video slide extraction and rendering
- Chrome side panel pairing with local daemon
Use it for
- Summarize web pages and articles
- Extract clean text from various file formats
- Get transcripts and summaries of YouTube videos and podcasts
- Pipe cleaned content and JSON data into scripts
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