YouTube Summarizer at a Click
SummUp is a Chrome extension designed to summarize YouTube videos quickly and efficiently. By leveraging advanced APIs for transcript retrieval and summarization, it provides concise summaries of videos in under 8 seconds, saving users valuable time.
- Fast Summarization: Summarizes YouTube videos in under 8 seconds, reducing video consumption time by up to 40%.
- Transcript Retrieval: Utilizes a Transcript API to fetch accurate video transcripts directly from YouTube.
- Concise Summaries: Generates brief and insightful summaries using a powerful Summarization API, ensuring users get the essence of the video content.
- Automated Workflow: Automatically processes video transcripts to create summaries, providing a seamless user experience.
- Time-Saving Tool: Ideal for active users who want to maximize efficiency and minimize time spent watching lengthy videos.
- Frontend: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for building a user-friendly Chrome extension interface.
- APIs: Transcript API for retrieving video transcripts and Summarization API for generating summaries.
Follow these steps to install and use SummUp as a Chrome extension:
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/sid1309/SummUp.git cd SummUp -
Load the extension in Chrome:
- Open Chrome and navigate to
chrome://extensions/. - Enable Developer mode (toggle in the top right corner).
- Click on Load unpacked and select the
SummUpproject folder.
- Open Chrome and navigate to
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Start using SummUp:
- Navigate to a YouTube video.
- Click on the SummUp icon in the Chrome toolbar to generate a summary.
SummUp/
├── icons/ # Icons used for the Chrome extension
├── popup.html # Extension popup interface
├── popup.css # Styling for the popup
├── popup.js # JavaScript logic for the popup
├── manifest.json # Chrome extension configuration file
├── README.md # Project documentation
- Siddhant Chatse - GitHub