URL to PDF: save any web page as a PDF

How it works

Our Chrome opens the page in a clean profile, through an egress proxy that only reaches public addresses.
It blocks ads, trackers and cookie banners and, for the whole page, scrolls so lazy images load.
It prints the page with Chrome's own PDF printer at the size of the device you chose and gives you the file.

What you get — measured, not promised

Pages the size of the screen you pick: 1280×800 px for Desktop (a 960×600 pt landscape page), 390×844 px for Phone (292.5×633 pt). There is no A4 or Letter option.
Several pages: Chrome's print layout spreads the page over as many pages as it needs and does not cut lines of text in half. In our test a Wikipedia article came out as 31 pages, a Laravel documentation page as 44.
Real text, not a picture: you can select, copy and search it, and links stay clickable.
The page as it looks on screen, backgrounds included — not the site's print stylesheet.
Ads and cookie banners are blocked, and lazy images are loaded before printing.
"First screen only" gives one page: what you see before you scroll.
A small watermark in the bottom-right corner of every page.
Not available: headers and footers, page numbers, margins, pages behind a login.

URL to PDF from your code

POST /v1/screenshots with "format": "pdf" and "full_page": true — the same Chrome, without the watermark on paid plans, also as a signed URL. For one-page documents from your own HTML (certificates, invoices) see the PDF generation API. 100 images a month free.

Start free — 100 images a month Screenshot API

Questions

How do I save a web page as a PDF?

Paste the address above and press Convert to PDF. Our Chrome loads the page, removes ads and cookie banners and prints it to a PDF you can download — nothing to install, it works from a phone too.

Why is the page not A4 or Letter?

The PDF keeps the site's screen layout, so each page is the size of the screen it was laid out on (960×600 pt for Desktop). An A4 page would make the site switch to its print layout or squeeze it. For A4 documents from your own HTML, see the PDF generation API.

Can I download a PDF file from a link with this?

This tool turns a web page into a PDF. If the link already points to a PDF file, open it in your browser and use its download button — that file is the original, nothing to convert.

Is the text in the PDF searchable?

Yes. Chrome writes real text and links into the PDF, so you can select, copy and search it, and links can be clicked.

Is it free?

Yes, with no account: 5 PDFs an hour from one address, with a small watermark on each page. The Screenshot API makes the same PDF from code; 100 images a month free, a whole page counts as two.