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. This might work on Firefox, but I took exactly zero minutes ensuring my API calls were cross platform. It does work on Opera, though.

• Sign up for an OpenAI API account
• Create an API key

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.