An article summarizer for any web link
This article summarizer takes a news story, blog post or long read and gives you the gist: a few key points, a short paragraph, a one-line TL;DR or a headline. Paste the article’s address and the page is fetched, cleaned of menus, cookie banners, share buttons, related links and comments, and shown as plain text you can check and edit. Or paste the article text yourself.
The summary is written by AI on your own device where possible — your browser’s built-in model, or an open model the page downloads with your permission — and it always comes with a link back to the original, so you can read the full piece and credit the source.
How to summarize an article
- Paste the article’s web address and press Fetch article. (For a paywalled or logged-in page, open it in your browser, copy the text and choose Paste the article instead.)
- Check the title, site, author and date, and read through the Article text. The built-in detection keeps the article and drops the page furniture; press Clean with AI for a second opinion, or Whole page to keep everything. You can edit the text directly.
- Choose a format — Key points, Paragraph, TL;DR or Headline — and a length.
- Press Summarize article. The engine line says what will run; if a model must be downloaded, you are asked first. The summary appears word by word, with the source link under it.
- Copy the result as Markdown or download it as .md or .txt — the source line goes with it.
Article Summarizer features
Reader mode first
A readability-style detector finds the block of the page with the most article-like text and keeps its headings, paragraphs, lists and quotes.
Optional AI cleaning
TypeSafe’s Jev model can score every block from “site furniture” to “main article” when the built-in detection gets a page wrong.
Title, site, author, date
Read from the page’s own metadata and shown with a link to the original, which is carried into the exported summary.
Editable before summarising
Remove a paragraph or fix an extraction mistake in the text box; the summary uses exactly what you see.
On-device summary
Chrome’s built-in summarizer or IBM’s open Granite 4.0 model writes the summary on your device; the server key-sentence engine is there if you prefer quotes.
When a link won’t fetch
- Paywalls and logins: the fetcher has no account, so subscriber-only text is missing. Copy it from your own browser and paste it.
- Sites that block automated visitors answer with errors such as HTTP 403; again, pasting works.
- Pages built by JavaScript arrive nearly empty because scripts never run in the fetcher. If only a few words are found, the page says so.
- PDF links are not web pages — use the PDF Summarizer instead.
- Private and local network addresses are refused for safety, and a fair-use limit applies to the number of pages fetched.
Read the summary, then the source
A summary is a starting point, not a replacement for the article. Small on-device models occasionally confuse who said what, merge two figures, or present a quoted claim as fact. Before you share a summary or base a decision on it, open the original — the link is right under the result — and check the numbers and quotes. If the article is an opinion piece, the summary will carry the author’s opinion, not a neutral account.
Please respect the publisher: link to the original, keep quotations short, and don’t republish a full summary of paid content as a substitute for it. To keep a clean copy of an article for yourself, try Webpage to Text or Webpage to Markdown; for your own documents, the Text Summarizer.
Article Summarizer FAQ
How do I summarize an article from a link?
Paste the URL, press “Fetch article”, check the extracted text, then press “Summarize article”. You get key points, a paragraph, a TL;DR or a headline, with a link back to the source.
Why does a news site give an error or an empty article?
Many news sites block automated requests, sit behind a paywall or build their pages with JavaScript, which the fetcher does not run. Open the article in your browser, copy the text and use “Paste the article”.
What is sent to your server?
The address of the page (to fetch it, without your cookies). “Clean with AI” sends the page’s text blocks, and the optional key-sentence engine sends the article’s sentences, each only when you press its button. The on-device summary engines send nothing.
Is the summary accurate?
It is usually faithful to the main points, but small models can get details wrong. Check facts, figures and quotes in the original article before relying on them.
Can I summarize articles in other languages?
Chrome’s built-in summarizer handles English, Spanish, Japanese, German and French; the open Granite model covers twelve languages with varying quality. The reader mode works for any language.
Is this article summarizer free?
Yes — no account, no limit on the number of summaries you make on your own device, and only a fair-use limit on how many pages the fetcher downloads in a short time.