How to Build a Web Page to PDF Converter and Not Lose Your Mind

Have you ever wanted to save an article as a PDF without all the extra junk — just clean text? Or save only a specific part of a page? And have everything on one long page, without page breaks? Yeah. Same here. So I decided to build my own solution and turn it into a browser extension. What’s wrong with the standard CTRL+P? When I save something as a PDF, I want it to look exactly the way it looks on the screen. I want clickable links. I want the whole document on one long page, without breaks. CTRL+P can’t do that. It’s good only for printing on paper. Which is exactly what it was originally designed for. Everything else it simply doesn’t know how to do. Available modes in the extension Full page Saves the entire page exactly as you see it on the screen. The text stays selectable, and links remain clickable. This is not an image with OCR text. It’s a real PDF with real text and real links. Export a page element In this mode, you can select a specific element on the page and export onl