AI Task

AI Text Summarization API

Condense articles, documents, and web pages into clear summaries with a single API call. Choose short, medium, or long output — $0.50 per call.

1

Send your text

POST to /api/v1/generate with task "summarize" and your content (up to 100KB).

2

Choose length

Set options.length to "short", "medium", or "long" to control output size.

3

Get your summary

Receive a structured JSON response with your summary in seconds.

Code example

Request

curl -X POST https://instantapis.net/api/v1/generate \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "task": "summarize",
    "input": "Artificial intelligence has transformed the way businesses operate. From automating routine tasks to providing deep insights from complex data sets, AI technologies are being adopted across every industry. Machine learning algorithms can now process vast amounts of information in seconds, enabling real-time decision making that was previously impossible...",
    "options": {
      "length": "short"
    }
  }'

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "summary": "AI is revolutionizing business operations through task automation and data-driven insights, with machine learning enabling real-time decision making across industries."
  },
  "task": "summarize",
  "timestamp": "2026-03-28T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

Content Curation

Automatically generate summaries for blog posts, articles, and newsletters. Give readers a quick preview before they dive in.

Research & Analysis

Condense research papers, reports, and whitepapers into digestible summaries. Save hours of reading time for your team.

News Digests

Build automated news digest apps that summarize breaking stories. Deliver concise updates to users in real time.

Customer Support

Summarize long support tickets and conversation threads so agents can understand context instantly without reading entire histories.

Summarization features

Adjustable summary length (short, medium, long)
Handles up to 100KB of text per request
Works with articles, papers, reports, emails, and more
Structured JSON response for easy integration
Batch endpoint for processing up to 20 documents at once
Consistent, deterministic output format
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