How to Save News Articles as Markdown

News sites are some of the messiest pages on the web --- ads, popups, newsletter prompts, cookie banners, and auto-playing videos surround the actual article. Here’s how to extract just the journalism as clean Markdown.

Why Save News Articles as Markdown?

News content has unique preservation challenges:

• Articles go behind paywalls --- free today, locked tomorrow
• Content gets updated silently --- stories change without notice
• Sites redesign --- old article links break
• Clutter overwhelms --- ads, trackers, and popups make reading painful
• No personal archive --- bookmarks die when URLs change

What Save Captures

Article Content

• Headline and subheadlines
• Full article body with paragraph structure
• Author and publication date
• Pull quotes and highlighted text
• Key data points and statistics
• Source attribution

What Save Removes

• Display ads and sponsored content
• Navigation menus and footers
• Cookie consent banners
• Newsletter signup prompts
• Related articles sidebar
• Auto-playing video players
• Social sharing buttons

Example Output

# Tech Giants Report Record AI Infrastructure Spending

**Source:** The Information
**Author:** Sarah Chen
**Published:** March 28, 2026

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The five largest technology companies spent a combined $87 billion
on AI infrastructure in Q1 2026, a 340% increase from the same
period last year, according to earnings reports released this week.

## Key Numbers
- **Microsoft:** $24B (up from $6B)
- **Google:** $22B (up from $8B)
- **Amazon:** $19B (up from $5B)
- **Meta:** $14B (up from $4B)
- **Apple:** $8B (up from $2B)

> "We're in an infrastructure arms race that makes the dot-com
> era look modest," said analyst James Park at Morgan Stanley.

## What They're Building
The spending breaks down into three categories:
1. **GPU clusters** — primarily Nvidia H200 and B200
2. **Custom silicon** — Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium, Apple M-series
3. **Data centers** — new facilities in 14 countries

Use Cases

Personal News Archive

• Save the most important articles you read each week
• Build a searchable archive organized by topic
• Never lose access to articles that go behind paywalls later

Research and Analysis

• Collect coverage of a topic across multiple outlets
• Track how a story evolves over days and weeks
• Build source material for reports and presentations

Media Monitoring

• Save coverage of your company or industry
• Track competitor mentions in the press
• Archive product reviews and analyst coverage

AI-Powered Briefings

• Save articles and feed them to AI for daily briefings
• Ask AI to synthesize coverage across multiple sources
• Generate summaries from your personal news library

Tips for Best Results

1. Works on most news sites --- NYT, WSJ, BBC, Bloomberg, The Guardian, TechCrunch, The Verge, Ars Technica, and hundreds more
2. Paywalled articles --- if you can see the content (via subscription or free articles), Save can capture it
3. Bypass reader mode --- Save’s AI extraction is more thorough than browser reader mode
4. Save the original --- save from the article URL, not from Apple News or Google News redirects

Get Started

Install Save from the Chrome Web Store --- build your news archive.

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