Related. This is the bookmark I use to summarize websites using ChatGPT: javascr...

simonw · 2024-12-31T05:26:08 1735622768

Here's a version of that which should work for any page, whether or not they allow ChatGPT URL access:

    javascript:window.open('https://chatgpt.com/?q=summarize this page in 100 words: '+encodeURIComponent(document.body.innerText),'_blank');

I swapped window.location.href for document.body.innerText

thih9 · 2024-12-31T06:59:20 1735628360

I’m sure Openai likes this use case, a neat way to access data where they are otherwise blocked.

Personally I’d worry about using this accidentally and with some sensitive data (eg logins).

I do like the idea though, I’d use this with a local model.

hu3 · 2024-12-31T05:52:30 1735624350

Nice! Thank you!

I just wonder if browsers will limit the amount of characters in URLs.

If memory serves me, there was a limit. But it might be high enough to work fro most pages.

gloosx · 2024-12-31T06:21:54 1735626114

It's around 8KB now – so text bigger than 8 thousand characters will return: "414 Request-URI Too Large".

Anyway the document.body.innerText contains all things on the site, including links, menus, buttons etc just 1 per newline. LLM will only recognise if it previously scanned the same website and it did not change much since the last training set. Some arbitrary websites it will not recognise this way and start hallucinating one because innerText removes all the structure from it.

a57721 · 2024-12-31T06:36:43 1735627003

Modern browsers are not an issue here, e.g. chromium allows 2MB; the issue is with web server's limits.

hu3 · 2024-12-31T08:21:07 1735633267

Indeed, I'm getting Cloudflare error "414 Request-URI Too Large" for this HN post which isn't large.

But the URL bar was not the problem.

mdaniel · 2024-12-31T03:36:03 1735616163

I was surprised about the "doesn't require a ChatGPT account" part but when I tried it from an incognito window their "4o mini" gave back

I cannot access external links directly. However, if you provide the text or key points from the page, I can help summarize it for you!

and clicking the model selection drop-down produced "Log in to try advanced features"

hu3 · 2024-12-31T05:00:38 1735621238

interesting so it didn't work for you unfortunately. Give me 2 minutes I'll try it and screenshot the result in both browsers.

edit: you're right it requires the user to be logged in to crawl websites. Somehow in my test while writing it I was logged in. My bad.

So while it's handy, it's not perfect.

bufferoverflow · 2024-12-31T06:13:02 1735625582

That only works for public pages. It can't summarize some attachment to your email, for example.