YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude

Summarize YouTube videos, web articles, and PDFs to save time, powered by ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral AI, and Gemini.

YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude is a free Chrome extension designed to save you time by quickly summarizing YouTube videos, web articles, and PDFs. Powered by advanced AI models like ChatGPT from OpenAI, Claude from Anthropic, Mistral AI, and Google Gemini, this extension delivers concise and customizable summaries that help you learn efficiently without watching lengthy videos.

Users can easily activate the extension on any YouTube video, generate summaries with clickable timestamps, and copy full transcripts. It supports multiple languages and is ideal for students, professionals, and anyone looking to boost productivity by digesting content faster. With flexible settings to adjust summary length and prompts, this tool enhances educational research and everyday video consumption effortlessly.

User reviews

Users find the extension very useful for obtaining YouTube video transcripts and summaries, highlighting its ease of use and helpfulness. However, multiple reviews report a recent problem where the extension suddenly stops working, showing errors like inability to retrieve transcripts, possibly due to changes in YouTube's system. Users express hope for a fix to restore functionality.
Pros
  • Provides transcripts or summaries for almost any YouTube video
  • Easy to use and very helpful for completing tasks
  • Generally fast and useful
  • Highly recommended by many users
  • Supports editing or configuration such as adding tags
Cons
  • Recently stopped working for many users
  • Fails to retrieve transcripts or summaries for some videos
  • Possible incompatibility due to YouTube layout changes
  • Errors such as "Couldn't retrieve transcript for this video"
Recent reviews
좋습니다
by 설휘휘, 2025-05-14

good
by Ton Ta, 2025-05-14

Used to work great but now doesn't work with autogenerated subtitles for me
by Overcast, 2025-05-13
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Extension safety

Risk impact
Low risk impact

YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
  • High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
Risk likelihood
Very low risk likelihood

YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Claude has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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