Media and publishing
Keep a web page as something that will still open.
A link is a promise the other site might not keep. Save the page as Markdown — the words, the headings and the links, without the navigation, the cookie banner and the ads.
- You start with
- A URL
- You end up with
- Markdown
How it goes
2 steps
Each one is a tool you can open on its own. The order is the part worth keeping.
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Web page to Markdown
Paste the address. What comes back is the article, in Markdown, ready to keep in a repository or a notes file.
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Markdown to PDF
Turn it into a PDF when the copy has to be filed as a document rather than as a source file.
What you will need
The tools this uses
Answers
Questions people ask
Does it work on any page?
It works on pages that are readable without signing in. A page behind a paywall or a login is not fetchable, and should not be.
What about the images?
The Markdown keeps the image links. They still point at the original site, so save anything you need to keep independently.
Why Markdown rather than HTML?
Because it stays readable in twenty years and diffs cleanly. HTML from a modern page is mostly layout.
Keep a web page as something that will still open
No account needed, no watermark, and nothing to install.