Show HN: ChatGPT article summaries right from the browser
We built automation via Apple Shortcuts and a FastAPI app to easily generate summaries of articles and webpages directly from your iPhone!<p>Please see details in the README in the link. You can run the backend on whichever serverless hosting platform you prefer, but Digital Ocean is just one-click away.<p>We hope folks find this fun and useful!
GitHub - IntrinsicLabsAI/summarizer-app: A fast Apple Shortcut to summarize any URL with GPT 3.5!
ChatGPT Summarizer Apple Shortcut ⚡️ 📲💻
This repository contains the code and documentation to setup a self-hosted proxy that lets you with one tap summarize webpages from your Apple devices. Use it for

Articles and Blog Posts
Github READMEs
HN comments

It's entirely self-hosted: the Shortcut runs directly on your device, and the proxy is deployed directly onto a serverless hosting platform, such as
Digital Ocean App Platform or Heroku.
Usage
The app uses FastAPI to provide a small endpoint that accepts a URL, and BeautifulSoup to extract text from the webpage. This text is sent to OpenAI's ChatCompletions service to create a succinct summary.
E.g. let's say that you have deployed this repo as an app available at https://summaries.app.dev, you would send requests that look like
POST https://summaries.app.dev/summarize

Content-Type: application/json

{
  "url": "https://github.com/stallionlabs/summarizer-app/blob/main/README.md"
}

The response will be string containing the summary, that's it!
Deployment

We provide one-click Digital Ocean App Engine deploys, but you can use any app host you like!

If you have a Digital Ocean account, you can click the big blue button to easily deploy this and get to self-hosting! If you go for the Basic plan it will cost you $5/month to run it.

Shortcut Setup
The Shortcut is publicly accessible via iCloud.
Or, since we're on a real big-blue-buttons bender, go ahead and click this



Apple Shortcuts run privately on your devices, so when you import it you will be prompted to provide the URL for the app endpoint that you are using to hit the device.
The Shortcut is very simple, it's just grabbing the URL of the page you're on, sending it to your self-hosted app, and showing the result to you. That's it!

Once you've answered the prompt, the Shortcut will now show up in your share sheet on apps like Safari and Chrome, or on macOS in any browser.


