Youtube Transcript AI Summary Firefox

Youtube Transcript AI Summary

By: RSpark
Get AI generated summary for Youtube video transcript.

Features & Capabilities

The Youtube Transcript AI Summary Chrome extension offers an efficient way to get quick, AI-generated summaries of YouTube video transcripts. Utilizing the powerful OpenAI API, it provides automatic summaries that help you quickly understand long-form spoken content in videos.

Key features include automatic AI summary generation, manual text summarization using ChatGPT, text splitting for easier reading, and customizable prompt entry to tailor summaries to your needs. Ideal for students, researchers, and avid viewers, this extension streamlines your video content consumption by delivering concise and relevant summaries, boosting productivity and comprehension.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V3 Add-on AI Education
By:
RSpark
Daily users:
1,268 -23
Rating:
2.96
(24)
Version:
1.2.3 Last updated: 2025-06-25
Version code:
5975994
Creation date:
2023-02-20
Risk:
Very high risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Permissions:
Host permissions:
  • https://www.youtube.com/*
  • https://chatgpt.com/*
  • https://claude.ai/*
  • https://www.mediafreeware.com/*
  • https://www.google-analytics.com/*
  • https://api.openai.com/*
Content scripts matches:
  • www.youtube.com
  • chatgpt.com
  • claude.ai
Size:
958.71KB
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-07-04
Compare stats and ranking:

Other platforms

Chrome
Youtube Transcript AI Summary (v1.2.4)
30,000 4.27 (78)
Edge
Youtube Transcript AI Summary (v1.2.4)
8,251 4.50 (23)

Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.
Developed by:
RSpark
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-transcript-ai-summary/
Website:
https://www.mediafreeware.com/youtube-transcript-ai-summary-extension.html

Permission Change History

2025-06-25: Version 1.2.0 → 1.2.3
Add Permissions: alarms
2024-05-04: Version 1.1.4 → 1.1.8
Add Host permissions: https://chatgpt.com/*
Remove Host permissions: https://chat.openai.com/*
2023-09-27: Version 1.0.7 → 1.1.2
Add Host permissions: https://claude.ai/*
2023-04-13: Version 1.0.6 → 1.0.7
Add Host permissions: https://api.openai.com/*
2023-03-16: Version 1.0 → 1.0.5
Add Host permissions: https://www.google-analytics.com/*
Add Permissions: webRequest

User Reviews

Overall, users praise the add-on for generating YouTube summaries and view it as a welcome Firefox feature. However, recurring concerns focus on needing an OpenAI API (with potential costs), trouble using API keys, reliability issues, and policy risks such as OpenAI account terminations or the need to switch to alternative providers like Claude.
Pros
  • Works great.
  • Great for quickly summarizing YouTube videos.
  • A good add-on and long-awaited feature for Firefox.
  • Capable of generating YouTube video summaries.
Cons
  • Requires an OpenAI API and can incur ongoing costs.
  • Difficulty or failure to use an added OpenAI API key in the plugin.
  • Reliability issues and errors (e.g., requests failing) preventing summaries.
  • OpenAI policy issues, including account terminations or unclear violations.
  • Some users report being steered toward alternative providers (e.g., Claude) due to OpenAI dependency.
Recent reviews
youtube already does this ai garbage. ignoring why anyone would wanna read the waste of water and time and labor that is an ai summary, why would you wanna add a second ai summary over your already unwanted ai summary. die
by Fi*****, 2026-05-13

This is the reason why winters are hotter, water is less drinkable and RAM is so expensive
by Fi*****, 2026-03-26

Requires an OpenAI API? WTF? APIs can cost you money. Pass...I'll use one of the dozen other YT transcript extensions.
by Me*****, 2025-10-13
View all user reviews ›

Is Youtube Transcript AI Summary Safe?

Risk impact
Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Youtube Transcript AI Summary requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Request access to the following domains: youtube.com, chatgpt.com, claude.ai, mediafreeware.com, google-analytics.com, openai.com
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Risk likelihood
Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

Youtube Transcript AI Summary is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details
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