summarize

The summarize skill provides a command-line interface to generate summaries or transcriptions from URLs, local files, and YouTube videos.

20.2K
Installs
4
Use cases
9/10
Quality

Is summarize safe to install?

Review the source first

Review the source first: our audit of summarize's source files found 4 shell commands, 0 external URLs, file reads and writes (high risk). Every command and URL listed appears verbatim in the skill's source. The skill executes shell commands and reads local files. It requires external API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, or Google, and optional tokens for Firecrawl and Apify services.

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Who is this skill for?

Users who need to extract content or summaries from web articles, PDFs, and video media via the terminal.

What can you do with it?

  • Summarizing web articles and URLs
  • Transcribing YouTube videos
  • Extracting text from local PDF files
  • Generating machine-readable summaries in JSON format

How good is this skill?

Quality score: 9/10. The documentation provides clear usage examples and configuration instructions. The tool surface is well-defined.

What does the skill file contain?

SKILL.md
# Summarize

Fast CLI to summarize URLs, local files, and YouTube links.

## When to use (trigger phrases)

Use this skill immediately when the user asks any of:

- "use summarize.sh"
- "what's this link/video about?"
- "summarize this URL/article"
- "transcribe this YouTube/video" (best-effort transcript extraction; no `yt-dlp` needed)

## Quick start

```bash
summarize "https://example.com"
summarize "/path/to/file.pdf"
summarize "https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ" --youtube auto
```

## YouTube: summary vs transcript

Best-effort transcript (URLs only):

```bash
summarize "https://youtu.be/dQw4w...

Frequently asked questions

Does this skill require external API keys?

Yes, it requires an API key for a supported provider such as OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, or Google.

Can it process local files?

Yes, the skill accepts local file paths, including PDFs, as arguments.

How does it handle YouTube videos?

It performs best-effort transcript extraction and supports an optional Apify fallback for YouTube processing.

Data sourced from steipete/clawdis on GitHub. Install counts from skills.sh. The summary and security audit are derived from the skill's source files: every command and URL listed appears verbatim in the source.

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