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Convert Any URL to a Print-Ready PDF

Paste a web address and get a clean, paginated PDF with selectable text and working links. Choose A4, Letter, Legal, A3, or Tabloid, flip to landscape, and download in seconds. Free, with no signup and no print dialog.

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https://www.wikipedia.org/

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The same PDF, in code

This request matches the settings you selected above. Swap in your API key to generate the same PDF from your own application.

webpage.pdf
curl "https://shot.screenshotapi.net/v3/screenshot?token=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikipedia.org%2F&file_type=pdf&full_page=true&format=A4"

What does a URL to PDF converter actually do?

Converting a web page to PDF is not the same as taking a picture of it. A proper conversion renders the page in a browser engine, resolves its CSS and JavaScript, and then lays the result out onto fixed-size pages the way a printer would, but deterministically.

That distinction matters. A screenshot pasted into a document is one flat image: the text cannot be searched, links do not work, and printing it at A4 produces soft edges. A rendered PDF keeps text as text, keeps links clickable, and prints crisply at any size.

This generator handles the parts that browser printing usually gets wrong: it loads the full document height so the bottom of the page is not lost, it removes consent overlays and ad slots before pagination, and it applies the paper format you chose rather than whatever preset your operating system defaults to.

Rendered, not photographed

Text stays selectable and searchable, and hyperlinks keep working inside the finished document.

Paginated to a real paper size

A4, A3, Letter, Legal, and Tabloid all map to their exact physical dimensions, so the PDF prints without rescaling.

Clean by default

Cookie banners and ads are removed before layout, so page one is your content rather than a consent dialog.

Conversion Routes

Link to PDF, web to PDF, website to PDF: which one do you need?

The same job travels under half a dozen names. Link to PDF, web to PDF, website to PDF, or simply download webpage as PDF all describe turning something that lives at a web address into a document you can keep. What actually differs is the starting point: a single link, a list of them, an entire site, or HTML you built yourself. Here is the route for each one.

Convert one link to a PDF

The plain case, and what most people mean by url to pdf. Paste the address into the generator above, choose A4 or Letter, and download the finished document. Nothing to install and no account to create.

Paper sizes

  • A4
  • Letter
  • Legal
  • A3
  • Tabloid

Download a batch of webpages as PDFs

Once there are fifty or five hundred addresses sitting in a spreadsheet, converting them one at a time stops being reasonable. A bulk run takes the whole list and returns one document per row, with the same paper format applied to all of them.

Bulk conversion

Turn an entire website into PDFs

What people describe as download website as pdf is really a bulk job driven by a page list. Point it at the URLs you want covered, from a sitemap or an export, and every page comes back as its own file instead of one unmanageable document.

URL to PDF API

Keep a dated PDF of a page over time

Pricing pages, product listings, and policy pages change quietly and without notice. A scheduled conversion writes a fresh PDF on an interval, so you end up with a record of what a page actually said on a given date.

Scheduled captures

Convert HTML you generated yourself

Invoices, certificates, and receipts usually never exist at a public address at all. In that case you send the markup instead of a link and get back the same paginated document, which is the route most teams use for templated paperwork.

PDF rendering docs

When you wanted an image, not a document

If the output is headed for a slide, a README, or an og:image rather than a printer, a full page screenshot is the better format. Same browser engine underneath, different file at the end of it.

Full page screenshot tool
Choosing a Route

Webpage to PDF: online converter, extension, or API?

Search for webpage to pdf and the first page of results mixes free online converters, Chrome extensions, phone apps, desktop software, and the print dialog you already have. They are not competing at the same job. Lined up by how much of the work you hand off, here is what each route is good at and the exact point where it stops.

  1. Browser print

    A receipt or a booking you need on disk right now.

    Installs
    Nothing
    Volume
    One page, by hand

    The file comes out of the site's print stylesheet combined with your own margin and scale settings, which is why the bottom of a long page so often goes missing.

    Why pages get cut off
  2. Extension or phone app

    Filing pages as you read them, on the device you read them on.

    Installs
    An extension or an app
    Volume
    One page, by hand

    It needs standing access to the pages you visit, and the result still shifts with your window width, your zoom level, and whatever else the tab has loaded.

  3. Desktop PDF software

    Editing, merging, and signing once the document already exists.

    Installs
    A paid desktop app
    Volume
    One page, by hand

    Genuinely strong at everything that happens after the conversion. The conversion itself still runs through the same print path, so it inherits the same layout problems.

  4. This free generator

    A correctly sized, clean PDF from any public link, on any device.

    Installs
    Nothing
    Volume
    One link at a time

    Renders the page in headless Chromium, removes ads and consent dialogs before pagination, then applies the paper size you picked instead of a printer preset.

    Convert a link now
  5. URL to PDF API

    Documents your product has to produce while nobody is watching.

    Installs
    Nothing, one HTTP call
    Volume
    Thousands of URLs

    The same renderer as the tool on this page, plus raw HTML input, page ranges, headers and footers, and delivery straight into your own storage bucket.

    See the API

Stay with the free generator when

The job is a handful of links, you want the file in front of you now, and you would rather not install anything or hand a browser extension permanent access to your tabs. Everything on this page works without an account, on a phone as readily as on a laptop.

Move to the API when

PDFs have to appear with nobody present to click anything: an invoice per order, a client report every Monday morning, a dated archive of a page you need to be able to prove. The parameters you set above are the same ones the API takes, so nothing gets rebuilt.

If your particular problem is advertising and cookie walls rather than pagination, that one has its own walkthrough in how to print articles without ads. For generating the same documents from your own code, the Playwright PDF guide covers the library route end to end.

Use Cases

What people generate PDFs for

Any time a web page needs to become a document that can be filed, emailed, signed, or printed, a URL-to-PDF conversion is the shortest path there.

Invoices and receipts

Render an HTML invoice template to a pixel-accurate A4 or Letter PDF and attach it to a transactional email automatically.

Client and analytics reports

Turn a live dashboard into a dated PDF on a schedule so clients get a document they can file, not a link that changes next week.

Legal and compliance records

Archive terms of service, privacy policies, and pricing pages as they appeared on a specific date, with text that stays searchable.

Documentation exports

Give readers an offline copy of a knowledge base article or a getting-started guide without maintaining a separate PDF pipeline.

Certificates and tickets

Generate personalised certificates, boarding passes, and event tickets from an HTML template with correct page dimensions.

Proposals and quotes

Convert a web-based proposal into a branded PDF that a client can sign, forward, and store without any layout surprises.

URL to PDF FAQ

Common questions about converting web pages to PDF, choosing a paper format, and automating document generation through the API.

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