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Save New York Times as Markdown

Save exports New York Times articles as clean Markdown — with byline, date, and body intact, stripped of recirculation modules.

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What Save captures from New York Times

  • ✓ Headline, subhead, byline, publish date
  • ✓ Full article body with section headings and pull-quotes
  • ✓ Photo captions and credits
  • ✓ Article URL and canonical

What gets stripped

  • × Recirculation ("Editor's Picks", "The Morning") modules
  • × Newsletter signup and subscribe prompts
  • × Related-article sidebars

Save uses site-specific AI prompts to tell noise from content. The Markdown you get is optimised for note-taking apps (Obsidian, Notion) and AI context windows (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini).

How to save a New York Times page as Markdown

  1. Step 1

    Install Save for Chrome

    Grab the extension from the Chrome Web Store. Free, no account needed for the first 3 saves per month.

  2. Step 2

    Open any New York Times page

    Navigate to the page you want to save. Save auto-detects the site and picks the right extraction rule.

  3. Step 3

    Click the Save icon

    Clean Markdown, instantly. Copy to clipboard or download as a .md file.

Install Save for Chrome

Example: New York Times → Markdown

Point the extension at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/example-headline.html and the output is a structured Markdown file with frontmatter metadata, clean headings, and lossless content — ready to drop into Obsidian, Notion, or an LLM prompt.

--- new-york-times.md ---
# New York Times · sample content
source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/example-headline.html
> Save exports New York Times articles as clean Markdown — with byline, date, and body intact, stripped of recirculation modules.
## What was captured
- Headline, subhead, byline, publish date
- Full article body with section headings and pull-quotes
- Photo captions and credits

FAQ — New York Times to Markdown

Does Save work past the NYT paywall?

No. Save only extracts what your browser shows. If you're a subscriber, Save captures the full article; otherwise, it captures the previewable portion.

What about NYT Cooking recipes?

Yes — Save recognises NYT Cooking pages and extracts them in recipe format with ingredients and steps.

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