You may find that many of the YouTube videos you want to watch are very long, but it becomes a real problem when you want to get the information quickly and need to watch the entire video to get there.
But AI solves this problem, because now you can easily create short, specific summaries of long YouTube videos with an AI-powered browser extension.
Whether you need to summarize videos for work or personal use, here are some plugins to help:
1- Clarity:
(Glarity) is an open source plugin that uses ChatGPT bot to aggregate search results and YouTube videos. Once the video starts playing, the plugin will automatically start creating a summary and displaying it on the right side of the video.
This plugin supports 12 languages. So it allows you to get video summaries in multiple languages, but you must have a ChatGPT account to use this extension.
This add-on is completely free, does not display ads, and includes a privacy policy to protect your information.
Users of Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers can also use the extension for free.
2- YouTube snippets with ChatGPT:
(YouTube Summary with ChatGPT) Saves you time and learns faster by quickly summarizing long videos. In addition to a video summary, it also shows the full text of the video in case you don't want to leave out important information.
After installing this plugin, you will see a box titled (Transcript and Summary) in the upper left corner of the YouTube video page. Clicking it will generate the full text of the video. To create a summary, click on the (OpenAI) logo and the ChatGPT add-on will open the component in a new tab with a summary.
With this extension you can customize your tips for ChatGPT; The only downside is that it redirects you to the ChatGPT site instead of showing the summary in the tab itself.
This extension is free for users of Chrome and Safari browsers.
3- Eightify:
The extension (Eightify) also uses Language Models (GPT) to compile YouTube videos. Once it is installed in your browser, you will see a button called (summary) next to the like button at the bottom of each video you watch on YouTube, clicking on it will create the video that will be on the side displayed on the right side of the summary screen.
This plugin contains an eight-point summary of each YouTube video; It helps you quickly understand the entire video and also allows you to create summaries in different languages.
Eightify's free plan offers five free summaries after installation, with three weekly add-ons. In addition to this limitation, you can only bundle YouTube videos for free if the video has more than 30,000 views and is less than 60 minutes long. However, if you want to summarize a video that doesn't meet these criteria, you'll need to upgrade to the Eightify Pro plan.
This extension is for Chrome browser users only.
4- YouTubeDigest:
The plugin (YouTubeDigest) can generate YouTube video feeds in various formats. By default, it provides a five-point summary of the video, but you can change the setting to have a summary of titled sections, individual paragraphs, or articles.
If you choose to have the abstract in points or sections, there is also an option to set the number of points or sections, and besides the option to change the language, you can also export the abstract as a sample article, PDF, or DOCX file for easy sharing and reference information.
However, the main difference between this plugin and all the plugins on this list is that it supports text-to-speech functionality, so you don't have to read summaries created by yourself, but instead listen.
This extension is free for Chrome and Firefox users only.
5- VidSummize:
VidSummize uses the GPT 3.5 language model to summarize any YouTube video of any length in seconds, and because it divides the summary into chapters and main points, it only allows you to browse the summary and not just read the necessary parts.
This plugin allows you to customize prompts for personalized results and supports 17 languages.
Chrome and Firefox browser users can use this extension for free. It is also available as an app on Google Play for Android phone users and on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users.