Stack Overflow is every developer's reference library, but printing an answer means getting the sidebar ads, hot network questions, related questions, comment chains, and "Sign up" banners. Pretty PDF's dedicated Stack Overflow parser extracts just the Q&A you need with code blocks properly formatted.
Free — 3 PDFs per month. No credit card required.
Pretty PDF's Stack Overflow parser understands the structure of Q&A pages and extracts exactly the content that matters — stripping away sidebar ads, hot network questions, job listings, related questions, and sign-up prompts.
The full question is extracted with its original markdown rendering intact — headings, lists, links, images, and embedded code snippets. The question title becomes the document heading, providing clear context for every answer that follows.
The accepted answer is visually distinguished in the PDF output, matching Stack Overflow's convention of marking the solution the question author found most helpful. It appears first among the answers, so the most relevant solution is immediately visible.
Each answer retains its vote count and author information, so you can gauge the community's confidence in a solution at a glance. Author names and answer timestamps are preserved, providing full provenance for the content.
Code snippets are rendered using JetBrains Mono with proper monospace spacing, syntax-appropriate styling, and clean line wrapping. Indentation is preserved exactly, whether it is a two-space JavaScript function or an eight-space Go switch statement. Long lines wrap at the page margin instead of being clipped.
Question tags (python, javascript, docker, etc.) are included in the PDF, making it easy to categorize and search your saved answers later. View counts and question age provide additional context about the answer's relevance and the community's engagement.
Pretty PDF's parser is not limited to stackoverflow.com. It automatically detects and handles the entire Stack Exchange network — over 170 community Q&A sites built on the same platform, each covering a different domain of expertise.
The major standalone sites are all supported: Stack Overflow for programming, Super User for general computing, Server Fault for system administration, Ask Ubuntu for Ubuntu Linux, and Mathematics for mathematical proofs and equations. The parser recognizes each of these domains individually and applies the same extraction logic that works on Stack Overflow proper.
Beyond the standalone sites, every community on the *.stackexchange.com domain is auto-detected. This includes specialized communities like Unix & Linux, Database Administrators, Information Security, DevOps, Code Review, Electrical Engineering, TeX/LaTeX, and dozens more. Whether you are saving a networking answer from Server Fault, a bash scripting solution from Unix & Linux, or a cryptography explanation from Information Security, the parser extracts the Q&A content cleanly and formats code blocks with the same monospace precision.
Detection is automatic. You do not need to configure anything or tell Pretty PDF which Stack Exchange site you are on. The extension examines the page URL and the HTML structure, identifies it as a Stack Exchange Q&A page, and activates the dedicated parser. The same four-step workflow applies on every site in the network.
From any Stack Overflow question to a polished PDF in under ten seconds.
Open any Stack Overflow question page, or any Q&A page on a Stack Exchange network site. Pretty PDF works on questions with a single answer or hundreds of answers.
Click the extension icon in your browser toolbar. Pretty PDF automatically detects that you are on a Stack Exchange site and activates the dedicated Stack Overflow parser.
Select from five templates. Academic and Dark Mode work particularly well for code-heavy answers — Academic pairs a serif body font with clear monospace code blocks, while Dark Mode provides high contrast for syntax elements.
Click Generate PDF. The server extracts the question and answers, strips the sidebar and ads, applies your template with embedded fonts, and returns a clean PDF in seconds.
Stack Overflow questions often accumulate dozens of answers over time. A popular question about Python string formatting might have 30 answers spanning a decade of language evolution. A question about Git branching strategies might have 15 answers reflecting different workflows and team sizes. When you are saving an answer for reference, you usually want one specific solution — not the entire thread.
Pretty PDF's Selection mode solves this. Before clicking the extension icon, highlight just the answer you want on the page. Select from the answer text down through the code blocks, or select the entire answer div. When you generate the PDF, only the selected content appears in the output.
This is particularly valuable for long-running questions where the accepted answer may be outdated and a newer answer further down the page has a better solution using modern APIs or language features. Select the answer that actually solves your problem, regardless of its position in the thread or its vote count, and generate a focused PDF that contains exactly what you need.
Selection mode also works for capturing just the question itself — useful when you want to document a problem statement without any of the proposed solutions. Or select multiple consecutive answers if you want to compare two or three approaches side by side in a single PDF.
When no selection is made, Pretty PDF includes the full question and all answers, with the accepted answer highlighted at the top. Both modes produce clean output with properly formatted code blocks and no Stack Overflow UI clutter.
Free tier, no credit card. 3 PDFs per month with all templates included.
Install Free Extension