How to save just the article, without the page around it
Article Mode runs the page through Mozilla's Readability algorithm — the same engine behind Firefox's reader view — and rebuilds it as a clean single column. Use it for news articles, blog posts and long-form writing. It is the wrong tool for dashboards, tables and code-heavy documentation.
Takes about 1 min
Steps
Open the article
Any news article, blog post or long-form page. Let it finish loading.
Turn on Article Mode
Open the extension popup and enable Article Mode. Or press Ctrl+Shift+S (Cmd+Shift+S on Mac), which fires Article Mode, skips the preview and downloads immediately.
Check the preview
Confirm it picked the right block of content. Readability guesses at what the main content is, and on unusual layouts it sometimes guesses wrong.
Download
The result is a clean, single-column PDF with no ads, no cookie banner and no related-articles grid.
Worth knowing
- Readability is tuned for articles. On a dashboard, an app UI or a search results page it will either produce nothing useful or grab the wrong region.
- On code-heavy documentation it can drop <pre> blocks. For anything with code samples, use the default mode and remove clutter manually instead.
- Article Mode discards page structure, including things like an effective-date line in a sidebar. For archival captures where context matters — terms pages, listings, records — use the default mode.
- It does not bypass paywalls. It removes the overlay markup around content the page already served you; content the site never sent isn't there to recover.
Questions
Why did Article Mode capture the wrong part of the page?
Readability picks the block it scores as the main content, and on unusual layouts that can be a sidebar or a related-articles widget. Use Capture Element instead, which lets you point at exactly the block you want.
Does Article Mode keep images?
Yes — inline images that are part of the article body are preserved. Decorative images in the surrounding page furniture are not, which is the point.