News websites are the worst offenders when it comes to clutter. Auto-playing videos, newsletter signups, interstitial ads, "recommended for you" widgets, cookie walls — printing a BBC or NYT article with Ctrl+P turns a 3-paragraph story into a 9-page mess. Pretty PDF's article extraction cuts through all of it, leaving you with just the journalism.
Free — 3 PDFs per month. No credit card required.
Every element fighting for your attention on screen ends up in your PDF when you hit Ctrl+P.
Ad blocks injected every few paragraphs break up article text, adding 2-4 extra pages to your PDF with content you never wanted to print.
Sticky video players that follow you down the page print as large black rectangles, wasting space and ink on an element that serves no purpose in a PDF.
Overlay modals and slide-in prompts asking for your email appear in print output as opaque boxes covering the article text beneath them.
Grids of clickbait thumbnails and "you might also like" sections add 3-5 pages of unrelated content to the end of every printed article.
GDPR and cookie banners print as fixed-position bars across the top or bottom of every page, obscuring article content throughout the entire PDF.
Floating share bars and inline social buttons clutter the margins and add visual noise that makes your printed article look unprofessional.
Our generic article extraction engine, powered by trafilatura, works across all news sites without needing site-specific parsers. It analyzes page structure to isolate the editorial content from everything else.
The article headline, author name, and publication byline are extracted and placed prominently at the top of the PDF, giving your document a clear, professional header that identifies the source material at a glance.
The full story text is captured without truncation. Every paragraph of the article is preserved in order, with proper formatting, paragraph breaks, and subheadings intact. No "read more" cutoffs, no missing content.
Editorial photographs and infographics are preserved alongside their captions and credits. Ad images, tracking pixels, and decorative UI elements are identified and excluded automatically.
The publication date, source outlet, and article URL are captured and included in the PDF. This creates a proper citation record — essential for researchers, journalists, and anyone who needs to reference when and where something was published.
The extracted article is rendered with professional typography using your chosen template. No ad blocks between paragraphs, no sponsored content injections, no "around the web" widgets breaking up the narrative flow.
From any news article to a clean PDF in under ten seconds.
Navigate to an article on BBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Guardian, Reuters, or any news website. Pretty PDF works across all of them.
Click the extension icon in your browser toolbar. Pretty PDF detects the page content and prepares to extract the article from the surrounding clutter.
The extraction engine identifies the article body, headline, byline, and images. Ads, navigation, sidebars, comment sections, and promotional content are automatically stripped away.
Your article is formatted with professional typography and your chosen template, then delivered as a compact PDF. Just the journalism, nothing else.
News articles change. Corrections are silently applied. Headlines get rewritten hours after publication. Updates are appended without clear notation. And sometimes, articles disappear entirely — pulled for legal reasons, removed during site redesigns, or lost behind paywall changes. What was published today may not be what the URL shows tomorrow.
A PDF is a permanent, timestamped snapshot of an article exactly as it appeared when you saved it. The text, images, byline, and publication date are frozen in a file that cannot be silently altered. This makes PDFs the most reliable format for preserving news content as a matter of record.
This matters across many professions. Journalists save source articles when researching stories — if an article they cited is later corrected or removed, the PDF proves what was originally published. Lawyers preserve news coverage as evidence in litigation, regulatory filings, and due diligence research where the original publication date and content are legally significant. Researchers and academics cite news articles in papers and need a stable reference that will not change or disappear behind a dead link. Media monitors and PR professionals archive coverage of their clients and need a permanent record of each mention. And anyone who reads the news may simply want a personal record of what was published — a story that moved them, an investigation they want to revisit, or a report they need to reference later.
Pretty PDF's cloud library, available on Pro+ plans, takes archiving further. Your saved articles are stored online with full-text search, so you can find any article in your archive by searching for a keyword, publication name, author, or topic. It turns a scattered collection of bookmarks and screenshots into a searchable personal news library.
Free tier, no credit card. 3 PDFs per month with all templates included.
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