Extracts and summarizes content from URLs, YouTube videos, and local files using various AI models.
The Summarize skill integrates the summarize.sh CLI directly into Claude Code, enabling instant content processing from diverse sources. It allows users to quickly digest long-form articles, PDFs, and YouTube videos—providing best-effort transcript extraction without the need for external tools like yt-dlp. Supporting multiple providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini, this skill is essential for developers who need to rapidly gather context from external documentation, tutorials, or research materials while remaining in their terminal workflow.
Key Features
01Support for multiple LLM providers (Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI)
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03YouTube video transcript extraction and summarization
04Fallback scraping support via Firecrawl and Apify for restricted sites
05Multi-source extraction from URLs, local PDFs, and text files
06Adjustable summary lengths from short to XXL or specific character counts
Use Cases
01Digesting long technical documentation or blog posts quickly
02Summarizing local research papers and project requirements
03Extracting transcripts from video tutorials for code reference
