# Youtube Transcript AI Summary

> Get AI generated summary for Youtube video transcript.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-transcript-ai-summary](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-transcript-ai-summary)

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-transcript-ai-summary`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** RSpark
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 1,104
- **Weekly downloads:** 20
- **Rating:** 2.81 / 5 (26 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-05
- **First published:** 2023-02-20
- **Size:** 969 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [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](https://www.mediafreeware.com/youtube-transcript-ai-summary-extension.html)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #3,133 — Overall
- #1 — summary
- #3 — ai youtube summary
- #3 — youtube summary
- #4 — ai summary
- #5 — ai summary writer

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `alarms`

### Host permissions

- `https://www.youtube.com/*`
- `https://api.openai.com/*`
- `https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/*`
- `https://api.anthropic.com/*`
- `https://chatgpt.com/*`
- `https://claude.ai/*`
- `https://aisummary.app/*`
- `https://www.google-analytics.com/*`
- `https://spaces-downloader.freeconverting.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`
- `chatgpt.com`
- `claude.ai`
- `spaces-downloader.freeconverting.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com, chatgpt.com, claude.ai, freeconverting.com, openai.com, googleapis.com, anthropic.com, aisummary.app, google-analytics.com
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-transcript-ai-summary)