Email Me a Summary of Any Video or Article

Summarize something

Saw a 45-minute video and don't have 45 minutes? UserSummaryX emails you the gist. Paste a link to a video, an article or a PDF, or paste the text itself. Or tell your AI agent: “email me a summary of this video using UserSummaryX”. The summary comes to your own email in a minute or two, with the full transcript attached for videos.

Set it up (about 1 minute)

Open the UserSummaryX page. If you aren't signed in, you sign in first (or start a free trial) and come straight back.
Tap Turn on UserSummaryX. It's off on every account until you turn it on, so nobody can use your account for it without you.
Paste a link, or some text, or choose a PDF, and tap Summarize. Optional: say what to focus on, like “just the action items”.
For your AI assistant, connect UserAlertX (see the connector page). It gets an email_me_summary tool.

What it costs

2 tokens	a summary of a web page, a PDF, pasted text, or a video with captions (most YouTube videos have them)
+1 token per 5 minutes	a video with no captions: its sound is turned into text first. You see the price and say yes before it starts.

Charged only when your summary is emailed - nothing if it can't be made. The $5/month plan includes 50 tokens (25 summaries); the free trial includes 3 summaries. Videos up to 3 hours, 25 summaries a day.

Only ever to you

A summary always goes to your account's own email address. There's no “send to” anywhere - not on the page, not for your agent - so UserSummaryX can't be used to send mail to anyone else. Turn it off on the same page at any time; anything still waiting is cancelled and not charged.

For AI agents and scripts

In an MCP client (Grok Bot, Claude, ChatGPT and others), the UserAlertX connector has three tools: email_me_summary (a link or text, optional focus), summary_estimate (the price, no charge) and list_summaries. For a video with no captions, email_me_summary first answers with the price; the agent asks you and sends again with confirm.

Or call the API directly, with the account's UserAlertX API key in an X-Api-Key header:

POST https://useralertx.com/cgi-bin/itsummary.cgi?action=summarize
X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY
Content-Type: application/json

{"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...", "focus": "what it says about prices"}

action=summarize	`url` or `text`, optional `focus`, `confirm`. 200 = queued (`id`, `tokens`); 402 `needs_confirm` = send again with `confirm` set to `tokens`; 400 = the reason (off, no plan, not enough tokens, a limit).
action=estimate	`url` - kind, length, captions, tokens. No charge.
action=status	`id` - waiting, being made, emailed, or not made (and why).
action=list	the last 20.

Good to know

Which links work? Most public videos (YouTube and many other sites), direct links to sound or video files such as a podcast episode, articles and PDF links. Private, members-only or paywalled pages won't work, and some sites block us; then it's “not made” and not charged.
Your part: you send us links to things you're allowed to access. We fetch them only to make your summary, and we don't publish them.
What we keep: the summary, for 30 days, so it shows on your UserSummaryX page. Transcripts aren't kept - they're only attached to your email. See the privacy policy.
Accuracy: summaries are made by AI and can miss or get things wrong. For anything that matters, check the original.

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