# YouTube Summary

> YouTube Summary summarizes YouTube videos by extracting captions and sending them to the user’s own DeepSeek web chat.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `yt-summary`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** EL-MES
- **Category:** language-support,photos-music-videos,alerts-updates
- **Version:** 1.16.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-25
- **First published:** 2026-08-03
- **Size:** 203 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/yt-summary/)

## Description

YouTube Summary summarizes YouTube videos by extracting captions and sending them to the user’s own DeepSeek web chat. Requires an existing DeepSeek session in Firefox and a video with captions. No paid API or extension-run server.

## Rankings

- #137,010 — Overall
- #51 — youtube summary
- #53 — summarize youtube
- #53 — youtube summarizer
- #60 — ai youtube summary
- #141 — summary

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `notifications`
- `webNavigation`
- `https://www.youtube.com/watch*`
- `https://www.youtube.com/shorts/*`
- `https://www.youtube.com/embed/*`
- `https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/*`
- `https://www.youtube.com/api/timedtext*`
- `https://www.youtube.com/oembed*`
- `https://youtube.com/watch*`
- `https://youtube.com/shorts/*`
- `https://youtube.com/embed/*`
- `https://youtube.com/youtubei/*`
- `https://youtube.com/api/timedtext*`
- `https://youtube.com/oembed*`
- `https://m.youtube.com/watch*`
- `https://m.youtube.com/shorts/*`
- `https://m.youtube.com/embed/*`
- `https://m.youtube.com/youtubei/*`
- `https://m.youtube.com/api/timedtext*`
- `https://youtu.be/*`
- `https://chat.deepseek.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`
- `youtube.com`
- `m.youtube.com`
- `youtu.be`
- `chat.deepseek.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com, youtu.be, deepseek.com
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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