YoutubeDigest: summarize using ChatGPT
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- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Generates summaries for youtube videos using ChatGPT
Discover the power of YouTubeDigest, a cutting-edge tool that leverages ChatGPT AI 🧠 to generate concise and informative summaries of your favorite YouTube videos. Say goodbye to wasted time ⏰ and enhance your productivity by previewing video content before committing to watch.
Customize your experience with a range of summary formats:
- Get a quick tl;dr summary in a single paragraph. 💨
- Digest the main points with bullet-point summaries. 📋
- Dive deeper with layered bullet points, including video chapters. 📚
- Enjoy a comprehensive overview with article-style summaries. 📰
Unlock additional benefits with our versatile extension:
- Choose specific time ranges for tailored summaries. ⏳
- Seamlessly summarize and translate content between languages. 🌍
- Export your summaries as PDF, DOCX, or plain text for easy sharing and reference. 📤
Experience YouTube like never before with YouTubeDigest – your ultimate time-saving companion! 💡
FAQ:
Do I need a chatgpt account to run this extension ?
Yes, the extension requires that the user has a chatGPT account in order for it to work.
How do I make it work in Brave browser ?
Disable "Prevent sites from fingerprinting me based on my language preferences" in brave://settings/shields, this is needed because the extension needs to access the session you have for chatgpt and that option is preventing us from doing that.
Is this extension able to summarize videos without youtube transcript ?
No, right now the video must have a transcript, but this will change in the future.
Does it only work for youtube ?
That is correct, but we can extend that. If you have any requests, please add it in the support tab.
How can I request adding a new language ?
Please request the new language from the support tab and we will try to prioritize it.
Release notes:
2.4.0.0
- Add support for Google Gemini
2.3.0.0
- Summarize as short video
- Summarize as tweet and post tweet
- Remove Medium
V2.2.0.0
- Add medium spoort
V2.1.0.0
Provide both GPT 3.5 and GPT4 options
V2.0.0.0
Change the extension to use open AI API
V1.4.0.0
- Add Chat with video summarization
- Bug fixes
V1.2.0.3
- Bug fixes for article summarization
V1.2.0.2
- Fix include timestamp bug
V1.2.0.0
- Add support for custom prompts
- Add support for sharable links
- Change UX for article to use tabs
- Bug fixes
V1.1.0.0
- Export experience with timestamp and video link
- Auto cleanup for old conversations.
- Ability to abort summarization.
V1.0.0.2
- Bug fixes
- Add model choice to custom settings.
- Add Urdu language
V1.0.0.1
- Fixing hanging export behavior.
- Add dislike dialogue
- Add custom settings after summarization.
- Fix Articles that don't complete.
V1.0.0.0
- Fix the login issue in some browser
- Rewrite the article generation code.
- Ability to have custom settings for video summarization.
- Ability to customize the time range of the summarization.
V0.0.2.8
- Add the ability to choose the model for chatgpt plus users.
V0.0.2.6
- Add scrolling
- UI fixes
- Minor summary improvements
- More locales
V0.0.2.5
Make the model name dynamic to handle the model name changes
V0.0.2.4
Fix the extension for chatgpt plus
V0.0.2.3
Fixes for metrics
V0.0.2.2
- Add initial support for text to speech.
- Fix the article generation summary.
- Add caching for the summary in local storage so that other users can use it.
V0.0.2.1
- Add timestamps for bullet point summary.
- Improve the quality of the summary for bullet points and layered bullet points.
- Show partial layered bullet points summary instead of waiting till one bullet point is complete.
Latest reviews
- Michael Wagener
- Doesn't seem to be working properly in Vivaldi, regardless of what I try. Disappointing because it used to work... And I used it...
- marka dill0
- Wont work
- Zoltan Simari
- Doesn't work
- Rita Rita
- nah, its doesnt work, button is not apeared
- Dan Fox
- Doesn't work on Brave in 2025
- Zahara Kendagor
- Well, it WAS working just fine but now it seems to have broken. No Idea what's going on, there
- Hart Young
- Does not work at all, even on videos with transcriptions & CC available.
- Bharath Teja
- Currently the extension is not working
- Chasey Gentile
- I would leave it 0 stars if I could. Doesn't work whatsoever, total waste of time. Makes you jump through all these hoops to get it set up that actually don't help at all. It doesn't summarize youtube videos, won't even give me a chat generated summary or anything. One big huge waste of time and energy
- NAMAN NEGI
- can you add the setting to make the default chatgpt or gemini
- Oussama Ch
- poor text quality
- Hitesh Kar
- Unfortunately does not work anymore. The developers gave up on it. I use Horsy Chrome Extension. Super smooth and nice summaries for free.
- Ji Khalsa
- doesn't work. keeps telling me videos need a youtube generated transcript, but doesn't work when there is one.
- Zoran M
- Not sure what changed but after not using this for a while it now wants me give them my Google details. And now I see reviews that it's not working anyway. Uninstalled.
- Eunice Sara
- Not working, I'm using TinaMind too.
- Joe Smith (Joe)
- Not working. Where can I get my money refunded?
- Ella Sunny
- Not working, I'm using TinaMind now.
- Lukas Klinzing
- Does not work anymore, I use VideoToPage.com now
- Alex
- Doesn't work anymore. Switched to YouTube Summary AI with Gemini extension instead
- Zaydan Yazeed
- its no working
- shahed alasaad
- It is very good
- Sean Reid
- EDIT 2: Creator reverted their paid only program and went back to a free version. Has been working very well and would recommend. With AI like claude that allows large inputs this might be less needed now but still very effective. EDIT: NO LONGER FREE. Update around Dec 3rd 2023 added credit system and pay for use. On top of that the summary created on this new update stops producing about 200 words in. Went from the best extension to now just like the rest. OLD REVIEW;Amazing, much better than another summary extension i tried. Honestly its awesome. What are your thoughts on giving us the ability to modify the prompt that sends chatGPT?
- Sean Reid
- EDIT 2: Creator reverted their paid only program and went back to a free version. Has been working very well and would recommend. With AI like claude that allows large inputs this might be less needed now but still very effective. EDIT: NO LONGER FREE. Update around Dec 3rd 2023 added credit system and pay for use. On top of that the summary created on this new update stops producing about 200 words in. Went from the best extension to now just like the rest. OLD REVIEW;Amazing, much better than another summary extension i tried. Honestly its awesome. What are your thoughts on giving us the ability to modify the prompt that sends chatGPT?
- Алексей Ровный
- no working
- Karna Gudikandula
- not working on youtube
- Geo
- On YouTube's new test interface, not working.... will there be a fix?
- Augusto
- Asks for a google login
- Jagjot Singh
- wonderful tool
- media watch
- great
- Mustafa Kamal
- Seems like the option for Summarize every minute is removed from articles. When I summarize a video on article mode it defaults to random amount of minutes especially when the video is long. For example an hour long video defaults to summarizing to 32mins for the summary, would be great if I could select the specific minutes summarized in article mode.
- Mohammed Ali
- I got say it the extension has been reborn again.. from being paided to now free once again Great job!! I like the new direction and this is the best extension for summarizing videos no doubt
- Rithwik Sai katuri
- its sooo coool to summarise the notes before the video ends it completed the notes within 2min for a 1 hour lenght youtube class
- En théo2
- Does not work, it just copies the entire speech. I tried all the options, it didn't work. Even worse, it asked to log on youtube (why?) but inside the app... so I'm pretty sure they have my logins now. I'll pass.
- محمد سمير
- I think this extension make my browser slow. After turning it off I notice that I is fast, and after turning it back on my browser (Edge) is so laggy. I also had a problem after choosing "Custom prompt" where I got (MM:SS - undefined) where MM:SS is mintues:seconds The undefined things is showed to the user, so I think you need more TypeScript stuff in your codebase.
- Muhammad Yasser Elhaddad
- Amazing
- mostafa one
- great
- FirstName LastName
- I used to like this app when it didn't keep breaking, when it didn't require Google sign-in, and when it was actually free. In fact I was eager for them to get through the Google review and to be approved so that I could use the extension again, but as soon as I was able to get it back up and running after the review, it's a huge disappointment to see that it's no longer free and requires credits to do the most basic function. I get that the developers want to get their bag and they took time to make the extension. It used to be the best of its kind when there were no alternatives. Now there are so many options and this standalone extension doesn't provide any additional value but costs money. I switched to the extension "ChatGPT » Summarize & Chat" by calmai.net which is really easy to use and it does everything this does for free, plus it can also summarize other webpages. This isn't a sponsored review, I don't care what anyone else uses and there are plenty of free extensions you can find. I'm removing this extension. It's been a huge disappointment after such a long hiatus. -------- Update: Updated review from 1 star to 4 stars since the free version is added back. The summaries are genuinely pretty good and now the free version is back, it's worth using again.
- Fatema Cherif
- I really appreciate the free version! The summaries are great for taking notes on videos and referencing certain parts, I find the summaries generated from this particular extension to be more accurate than the other ones, thank you!
- Mirza Iqbal
- would not recommend due to its cost
- Artiman
- great it doesn't leave out the small detail but when i enter fullscreen in the video its just gray i would be happy of u fixed this issue
- Gian Carlo Arcenal
- As Mr. Binnie succinctly expressed, "I appreciate the developer's efforts to maintain this extension that can create concise summaries of YouTube transcripts. However, I have decided to stop using it because of the paywall. I think the quality of the summaries is still very good."
- Aditya Sethi
- Old version is just better! It uses my personal ChatGPT account to generate summary. Now it's pay to use model. Why should I pay for this if I am already paying for ChatGPT Plus subscription?
- Famous Man
- Please return the old features its unbelieve we need to pay for each use!! why not use ads?
- na Corea
- The extension is not working at all and no button appeared in youtube
- Sesamoid
- Hello dear developers, thank you for the new paid version. It should offer unlimited generation for the $9.90 price tag; otherwise, it may not be affordable to use it. Every time we regenerate a new task to make a small part correct, it becomes essential to have unlimited access.
- tenggu tuomi
- I cannot summarize the content because of bug
- tenggu tuomi
- I cannot summarize the content because of bug
- John Doe
- 🌟 1-Star Review: Persistent Issues Slow response from developers. Frustrating lack of timely fixes. Falls short of expectations compared to other chatGPT extensions. Promoted product with ongoing problems. Disappointed with the overall user experience. I've replaced youtube digest with ChatGPT » Summarize & Chat from calmai.net far more superior and customizable, IT SIMPLY WORKS.
- Khush Kailash
- Hopeless doesn't even work. I have tried it so many times but never i got the results with it i am seriously disappointed with this extension in chrome
- Abdul Hameed Abdul Azeez
- I am giving in two because it has been a bit helpful. It stops working almost every time and doesn't actually follow set instructions. Just fix it please