OpenAI API Explorer

Use OpenAI to summarize, ask questions, and explain text.

As of May 2026, OpenAI API Explorer has 321 users in the Productivity category.

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Version
1.5.20
Manifest V3

History

4 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 20, 2026.

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Permissions & access

Permissions
contextMenusstorageactiveTabidentityidentity.email
Host access
None declared

Screenshots

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About

Make a OpenAI models work with web page text for you.

1️⃣ You'll need OpenAI api key. Here is link to obtain it: https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.
2️⃣ Select text.
3️⃣ Choose "OpenAI API Explorer - TextAigist" -> "Summarize" or any other option, like "Answer the question" (if the the question is selected). Or even ask your own question about selected text with "Ask question about selected text" menu item.
❇️ See the summary from the OpenAI model as a popup window and the price (for example, the summary of a page chapter costs $0.000253)

Features:
ℹ️ Pick one of many OpenAI models available
ℹ️ Ask model anything about selected text like, in this case selected text is the context for the answer
ℹ️ Create custom menu item to ask your own questions about selected text (like "explain it in Turkish language for 14 year old", or "make a tweet out of this text, add emoji and excitement").

Security notes:
🔒 API key stored in your browser and used for OpenAI open API calls only.
🔒 The selected text is sent directly to the OpenAI API and is not stored anywhere. The OpenAI response is the summary itself; it is displayed on your screen and is not stored anywhere.

Feedback, questions, comments are highly appreciated: [email protected]

Technical

Version
1.5.20
Manifest
V3
Size
40.19KiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
1
Featured
No

Metadata

ID
cancnnlepmbfaegpklfklajlfglbdcan
Developer ID
u34ec73b75c0060bb05811cd0a2c5ed97
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
May 26, 2023
Last Updated (Store)
Jul 20, 2025
Last Scraped
May 30, 2026
Website
textaigist.online
Support URL

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