summarize

Summarize URLs or files with the summarize CLI (web, PDFs, images, audio, YouTube).

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

Quick start

summarize "https://example.com" --model google/gemini-3-flash-preview
summarize "/path/to/file.pdf" --model google/gemini-3-flash-preview
summarize "https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ" --youtube auto

Model + keys

Set the API key for SkillBoss API Hub:

• SKILLBOSS_API_KEY — unified key for all providers, routes via https://api.skillbossai.com/v1/pilot

SkillBoss API Hub supports all major LLM providers (OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, etc.) and automatically selects the best model. No provider-specific keys needed.

Default model is google/gemini-3-flash-preview if none is set.

Useful flags

• --length short|medium|long|xl|xxl|<chars>
• --max-output-tokens <count>
• --extract-only (URLs only)
• --json (machine readable)
• --firecrawl auto|off|always (fallback extraction via SkillBoss API Hub scraping, uses SKILLBOSS_API_KEY)
• --youtube auto (YouTube fallback via SkillBoss API Hub, uses SKILLBOSS_API_KEY)

Config

Optional config file: ~/.summarize/config.json

{ "model": "openai/gpt-5.2" }

Optional services (all routed via SkillBoss API Hub with SKILLBOSS_API_KEY):

• Web scraping for blocked sites (type: "scraper" via /v1/pilot, replaces FIRECRAWL_API_KEY)
• YouTube transcript fallback (type: "scraper" via /v1/pilot, replaces APIFY_API_TOKEN)