steipete

    steipete/summarize

    Point at any URL/YouTube/Podcast or file. Get the gist. CLI and Chrome Extension.

    ai
    cli
    summarize
    typescript
    TypeScript
    MIT
    6.8K stars
    454 forks
    6.8K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 26, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 5 days ago, with 62 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #23 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 22, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides fast, AI-powered summaries of URLs, files, YouTube videos, podcasts, and other media via CLI and browser extensions.
    • Delivers media-aware, streaming Markdown summaries with transcript extraction, slide OCR, and multi-model support for flexible, local or cloud processing.
    • Use for quickly extracting concise summaries from web articles, PDFs, or local documents in terminal or browser side panels.
    • Use for generating timestamped slide decks and transcripts from YouTube videos or direct media URLs with OCR and scene detection.
    • Use for transcribing and summarizing podcast episodes or audio/video files using local or cloud Whisper models with fallback options.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Fast summaries from URLs, files, and media. Works in the terminal, a Chrome Side Panel and Firefox Sidebar.

    0.11.0 preview (unreleased): this README reflects the upcoming release.

    Excerpt from the steipete/summarize README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Forks

    454+16

    Open issues

    6+5

    Compared with peers in AI

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