Page Summarizer

Page Summarizer is a Chrome extension that utilizes OpenAI's chat completions API to summarize text from a web page. Just highlight the text you want to summarize, click the extension icon, and get a concise summary.

Features

• Summarize the content of any web page
• Summarize the contents of selected text
• Fill in text with GPT
• Customize instructions to get the information you want
• Add persistent custom instructions for all summaries
• Uses the OpenAI conversations API

Installation

Prerequisites

You'll need to have Google Chrome or a Chromium-based browser installed and an API key from OpenAI. This might work on Firefox, but I took exactly zero minutes ensuring my API calls were cross platform. It does work on Opera, though.

Installation from the Chrome Web Store

Go here.

Installation from latest release

1. Go to the Releases page of this repository.
2. Download the latest chrome-extension.zip or firefox-extension.zip based on your browser.
3. Unzip the downloaded ZIP file.
4. Open Google Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/.
5. Enable "Developer mode" in the top-right corner.
6. Click "Load unpacked" and select the directory where you unzipped the downloaded ZIP file.
7. The extension icon should now appear in your Chrome toolbar.
8. Right-click the extension icon and choose "Options", then enter your OpenAI API key and preferred model.

Manual Installation from repo

1. Clone this repository to your local machine:

   git clone https://github.com/sysread/page-summarizer.git

2. Open Google Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/.
3. Enable "Developer mode" in the top-right corner.
4. Click "Load unpacked" and select the directory where you cloned the repository.
5. The extension icon should now appear in your Chrome toolbar.
6. Right-click the extension icon and choose "Options", then enter your OpenAI API key and preferred model.

Usage

Summarize the entire page

• Click the Page Summarizer extension icon
• Click "Summarize page"

Summarize selected text

• Select the text you wish to summarize
• Right click and choose "Summarize selection" in the context menu

Fill in text

• Click on the text area you want to fill in
• Right click and choose "Fill with text using GPT"
• In the dialog box that appears, explain what you want GPT to say
• Optionally check 'Include page contents?' if context may be needed
• Click "Submit"

Troubleshooting

• Make sure you've entered the correct OpenAI API key.
• Make sure your OpenAI account has sufficient API quota.
• Check the JavaScript console for any errors.
• Find the bugs in my code and submit a PR

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.