Recapext

This is an open source browser extension that summarizes any portion of a web page using ChatGPT. Instead of sending an entire document, a user selects the part they care about, and the extension splits long passages into chunks that fit the model's context before returning a summary. It installs into Chrome and works on ordinary pages rather than inside a separate app. It suits readers working through long articles, documentation and research pages who want a condensed version without leaving the page. Settings let a user pick the model used in the ChatGPT web application, or instead supply an OpenAI API model and even a custom API host, so the extension can run through an existing signed in session or through an API key the user already holds. Prompt help is built into the settings panel, and a later release added a chain of density summarization method for denser output. Pricing is straightforward: the extension is free and its source is published publicly under an open license on GitHub. There is no paid tier and no pricing page. The only cost a user carries is whatever their own ChatGPT account or OpenAI API usage costs, since the extension supplies no model access of its own. One limitation is worth knowing before adopting it. The published changelog ends at version 1.2.9, dated November 2023, and the public repository was last updated on the same date, so the project appears to have been inactive since then even though the site and repository remain online.