Quick YouTube Summary with Gemini

A lightweight Firefox extension that summarizes YouTube videos instantly using Google Gemini. Perfect for 🎓 students, 👨‍💻 developers, 📚 researchers, and anyone who wants to extract key insights without watching hours of video.

💯 Free & open-source 🔓 Publicly available on GitHub: 👉 https://github.com/LabinatorSolutions/quick-youtube-summary-with-gemini Contributions, issues, and pull requests are always welcome!

🎯 Why This Exists

Manually copying a YouTube URL, opening a new tab for Google Gemini, and typing out a repetitive prompt breaks your workflow and wastes time. This extension creates a seamless bridge between YouTube and Gemini, allowing you to generate AI summaries, extract bullet points, or ask questions about a video in a single click.

Ideal use cases

• 🎓 Educational lectures & courses
• 🎙️ Long-form podcasts & interviews
• 💻 Coding tutorials & technical deep-dives
• 📊 Product reviews & news breakdowns
• ⏱️ When you need the "TL;DW" in seconds

Important: 🔑 You must be logged into your Google account on Gemini (gemini.google.com) for this to work. 🤖 It leverages your own active session—no third-party API keys required!

✨ Key Features

• ⚡ One-Click Summaries — Send the video to Gemini instantly via the toolbar or right-click menu
• 🎯 Customizable Prompts — Edit the default prompt to tailor the AI's response to your exact needs
• 📑 Smart Tab Management — Reuses your existing open Gemini tab instead of cluttering your browser with new ones
• 💻📱 Desktop & Mobile Support — Compatible with Firefox Desktop and Firefox for Android
• 🕵️ Zero Data Collection — No tracking, no telemetry, no middleman servers
• 🔍 Privacy-First & Transparent — Fully open-source and auditable

🛡️ How It Works

For maximum reliability and privacy, the extension acts strictly as a local automation macro:

🔗 Step 1: Context Capture

Securely grabs the URL of your active YouTube video.

🧭 Step 2: Tab Resolution

Scans your browser for an existing Gemini session. If one exists, it brings it to the front. If not, it opens a fresh tab.

⌨️ Step 3: Prompt Handoff

Saves your prompt to local browser storage and navigates Gemini to a fresh page. A lightweight content script — pre-registered in the extension manifest — runs automatically on that page load, locates the chat input, pastes the prompt, and triggers the "Send" button. No script injection, no external communication.

🎮 How to Use

1. Set Your Prompt (Optional)
2. Right-click the extension icon and select "Options" to customize your default summary prompt.
3. Open YouTube
4. Visit any video you want to summarize.
5. Trigger the Summary
6. Click the extension icon in your toolbar, OR
7. Right-click anywhere on the page and select "Summarize with Gemini".
8. Watch the Magic
9. The extension will instantly switch to Gemini, paste the request, and generate your summary ✅

🔐 Privacy Policy (Short & Clear)

Your privacy is non-negotiable:

• ✅ No data collection or transmission to our servers
• ✅ No tracking, analytics, or telemetry
• ✅ No external third-party API connections
• ✅ All processing happens locally in your browser
• ✅ Fully open-source and auditable

Permissions requested

• activeTab — Read the current YouTube video URL
• storage — Save your customized prompt preferences and pass the prompt to Gemini
• tabs & *://gemini.google.com/* — Find your existing Gemini tab and navigate it to start a fresh session
• contextMenus — Add the right-click option on YouTube pages

That's it. 🚫 No browsing history access 🚫 No access to unrelated websites 🚫 No background data collection

🧪 Code Quality & Engineering

• 🧩 No external dependencies (vanilla JavaScript only)
• 🧼 Modern Manifest V3 architecture
• 📝 Well-documented and commented code
• 🛠️ Robust DOM polling to handle dynamic UI changes in Gemini
• 🚀 Performance-optimized (runs only when clicked)
• 🔄 Compatible with Firefox Desktop & Android

🧾 Technical Snapshot

• 🖥️ CPU Usage: Negligible (Zero background processing)
• 🧠 Memory Usage: < 1 MB
• 🌐 Network Requests: Zero (relies entirely on your native browser session)
• 🔋 Battery Impact: Minimal

👨🏻‍🔬 Credits

Developed by the team behind Labinator.

📞 Support & Issues

• 🐞 Bug reports & feature requests: 👉 https://github.com/LabinatorSolutions/quick-youtube-summary-with-gemini/issues

⚠️ Ethical Use & Responsibility

This extension is designed strictly to enhance the learning and viewing experience for valid users by providing quick insights into video content.

🚫 It is NOT intended to:

• Mass-scrape or automatically harvest video transcripts
• Circumvent platform protections or generate spam
• Replace meaningful engagement with content creators

We strongly encourage users to respect the platform and its creators. Summaries are meant to aid understanding, not to completely deprive creators of legitimate viewership.

📜 Disclaimer

This extension is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to YouTube, Google, Gemini, or Mozilla.

It respects YouTube's Terms of Service by:

• ❌ Not circumventing any paywalls or premium features
• ❌ Not downloading or modifying video content
• ✅ Utilizing the user's own authenticated session to manually query an AI model
• ✅ Acting strictly as a macro to automate typing a prompt

Use responsibly and in accordance with YouTube's and Google's Terms of Service.