Text Summarizer

The Text Summarizer extracts the main readable content from the current page and generates an AI-powered summary. Useful for quickly understanding articles, comparing research sources, or pulling clean text from ad-heavy pages.

When to Use It

• Quickly understanding an article without reading it in full
• Comparing summaries of multiple sources on the same topic
• Extracting clean article text from pages with heavy navigation, ads, or popups
• Getting a plain-text version of a page for notes or writing research

How to Use It

1. 02
   Navigate to an article, blog post, or content page in Chrome.
2. 04
   Open CrawlPilot → Text Summarizer.
3. 06
   Click Extract & Summarize.
4. 08
   CrawlPilot extracts the main content (from <article>, <main>, or the page body as a fallback) and sends it to the AI.
5. 10
   The summary appears in the panel within a few seconds.

Copy Options

• Copy Text — copies the raw extracted text (no AI summary)
• Copy Summary — copies only the AI-generated summary

AI Processing

The Text Summarizer uses Anthropic's Claude API. A trial usage quota is built into the extension. For heavy usage, you can add your own API key in Settings → Integrations → Anthropic API Key.

Works Best On

• News articles
• Blog posts
• Research and academic pages
• Wikipedia articles
• Documentation pages

Does Not Work On

• Login-gated pages (content not accessible without authentication)
• Primarily visual pages (image galleries, video pages with no transcript)
• chrome:// internal pages
• PDFs

Troubleshooting

"No content found": The page may use JavaScript to load its content after the initial page load. Wait for the page to fully render, then try again.

Summary seems incomplete: Very long articles may be truncated. Use Copy Text to get the full content and summarize it in your preferred AI tool.

Slow response: The AI API can take 3–10 seconds depending on article length. This is normal.