summarize

Why we included this project

Summarize is a command-line utility for anyone who regularly needs to digest long-form content: articles, YouTube videos, podcasts, or meeting recordings. It first extracts the cleanest possible text from the source, using Readability for web pages, transcript fetchers and Whisper for audio and video, with Firecrawl as a fallback when a site resists extraction, and only then passes that text to whatever model you have configured. That separation is why the results are usually good: the quality of a summary depends far more on clean extraction than on the model. You can run it without an API key for pure text extraction, hook up local models or authenticated coding CLIs, and even grab timestamped frames and OCR from video slides. A Chrome Side Panel and Firefox Sidebar version puts the same functionality directly on the page you're reading, and the JSON output makes it easy to script into your own workflows.