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About Brevity

Brevity takes any YouTube video URL and returns a clean, structured markdown summary. No account, no login.

How it works

  1. Paste a YouTube URL and hit Summarize.
  2. Brevity fetches the video's transcript via youtube-transcript-api.
  3. The transcript is sent to a large language model via OpenRouter, which streams the summary back in real time.
  4. The result renders as markdown you can copy and use anywhere.

Models & limits

Brevity runs on OpenRouter's free tier, rotating the best available free models. For this reason, the app is capped at 1,000 summaries per day. The counter in the corner shows what remains. The cap resets at midnight UTC.

Stack

Built and deployed on Vercel. Daily usage tracked with Upstash Redis. Markdown rendered with marked.js.

Made with ♥ by misterburton

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