ChatGPT Summary
Web pages
Summarize any web page in one click
What the extension does, how the panel works and which pages suit it best.
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ChatGPT Summary has been updated
Thanks for using the extension. Here's a quick refresher on how it works, and where to find everything else on this site: the YouTube summarizer, the settings and our list of AI tools worth adding to Chrome.
Don't have it yet? Add ChatGPT Summary to Chrome for free. On the Chrome Web Store it's listed as “Summary Webpage”.
Illustration of the summary panel. Your result depends on the page and your prompt.
Quick refresher
How to get a summary
You can do this on the page you're already reading, with nothing to copy or paste.
Open any article
A news story, a long blog post, a help page, a paper on arXiv. If the page has readable text, the extension can work with it.
Click the icon
Or press Ctrl+Shift+E (⌘+Shift+E on a Mac). The extension pulls the readable text from the page, leaving out menus, ads and footers.
Read the main points
A panel opens on the right with the summary. Copy it into your notes with one click, or close the panel and keep reading.
Set it up the way you read
Two choices in the settings shape every summary: how the extension talks to ChatGPT, and the prompt it uses.
- ChatGPT login (default). Sign in to ChatGPT in your browser and the extension uses that session. When ChatGPT logs you out, the panel asks you to sign in again and refresh the page.
- OpenAI API key. Paste a key from your OpenAI account in the settings. It's faster and skips the repeat logins, but it uses your API quota.
- Your own prompt. By default you get the main points as a list. Change the prompt once and every summary follows it, for example “Summarise the following article in simple English”.
Explore the site
Where to go next
YouTube
YouTube video summarizer: get the main points before you watch
Turn a video's transcript into a short list, with prompts that fit lectures, tutorials and podcasts.
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What happens to the page text
The extension reads the text of the page only when you ask for a summary and sends it straight to ChatGPT or the OpenAI API, depending on your settings. It doesn't keep the text or send it to our servers. The details are in the privacy policy.
Try it on the next long article
Press Ctrl+Shift+E on any page with readable text. New here? The extension is free to add.