Ask HN: Are there any tools which can summarize an article?

[thamizhan2611]

I am looking for a tool which can spit out a TL;DR version for any article so that I don't have to skim through the entire to understand what it says.

[amarraja]

I've used this in the past

https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper

There is also a wrapper to expose it as a rest api. Looks like it is not maintained, but easy enough to write your own

https://github.com/voidfiles/newspaper-delivery

[thamizhan2611]

Thank you. I am actually looking for an ML kind of a solution or work which can understand the context of any article and provide TL;DR suggestions. I understand that this will be very very hard to do but curious to know if there is anyone working in this domain.

[ktt3ja]

This is the tool used by reddit’s /u/autotldr bot:

https://smmry.com

[thamizhan2611]

Thank you :)