Ask HN: Best way to summarize a webpage using LLM?

Posted by aurareturn on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:15PM
from the ask-hn dept.

When I ask ChatGPT premium to summarize a URL, it won't crawl the entire page. I think it only crawls the meta data/title or a small portion of the top of the page.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to summarize a webpage using LLM? by riansanderson on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:53PM (#43191168)

Using the fabulous `llm` utility like this

``` pipx install llm pipx install strip-tags

curl -sf https://www.nytimes.com/ \ | strip-tags .story-wrapper \ | llm --system 'summary bullet points' ```

Read much much more goodness from the developer Simon Willison

https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/18/cli-tools-for-llms/

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to summarize a webpage using LLM? by colesantiago on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:28PM (#43191368)

I tried this and ran into a CAPTCHA.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to summarize a webpage using LLM? by dtagames on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:37PM (#43191066)

Turn on the search icon in the prompt box and use o-3. Or use the new Firefox AI that's built into that browser and made for looking at the website you're looking at.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to summarize a webpage using LLM? by TheMongoose on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:33PM (#43191041)

1. Close the GPT tab for the first time in years.

2. Read it with your eyeballs.

3. Parse it with your brain, think about it, maybe learn something.

Stop outsourcing your thinking to a freaking chatbot.

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