PrintFriendly for n8n

Install the Node

n8n Cloud

n8n Cloud installs verified community nodes from the nodes panel. Only the instance owner or an admin can install a node; everyone can then use it.

1. Open a workflow and open the nodes panel (select + or press N).
2. Search for PrintFriendly.
3. Under More from the community, select the PrintFriendly node, then select Install.

Self-hosted n8n

Go to Settings > Community Nodes, select Install, enter n8n-nodes-printfriendly, accept the community-node note, and install. See n8n's guide to installing community nodes for other setups.

Connect Your Account

1. Sign in to PrintFriendly and open your API key page. Copy your key. A free key includes 100 documents a month and needs no credit card.
2. In n8n, add a PrintFriendly node and create a PrintFriendly API credential.
3. Paste your key into API Key and save. Leave API Base URL at its default unless support asks you to change it.

Select Test on the credential to check the key. That check never uses one of your documents.

What It Does

The PrintFriendly node has one resource, Document, with three operations.

Convert

Pick a Source Type (URL, HTML or Markdown), give it the page address or the markup, and choose an Output Format. PrintFriendly keeps the article and leaves out the ads, menus and pop-ups.

• PDF or Word (DOCX): you get a file link. Turn on Download File to attach the file to the item as binary data, so the next node can upload it, email it, or save it anywhere n8n reaches.
• Markdown, HTML or Plain Text: text the next node can use, in the content field.
• JSON: the article in pieces (title, author, date, text), for nodes that want one field at a time.

Options include the page size (Letter or A4), a title, header text, a header image, your own CSS, the language and text direction, and whether to keep link addresses in text output.

Read Page

A shortcut for reading, not making a file: give it a URL and get the article back as clean Markdown or as JSON. Handy for summaries and for feeding a page to an AI agent.

Get Job

Convert has a Run Asynchronously option for very long pages: the node returns a Job ID right away, and the document is made on its own. Get Job looks one up by its Job ID and, once it is done, hands you the file or text. Jobs are kept for 48 hours, and only the API key that started a job can read it.

Example Workflows

Save new feed items as PDFs in Google Drive

1. RSS Feed Trigger. Paste the address of the blog's feed.
2. PrintFriendly, Convert. Source Type: URL. Map the item's link to the URL field. Output Format: PDF. Turn on Download File.
3. Google Drive, Upload. Use the binary field from the PrintFriendly node, and pick a folder.

Read a page as Markdown for a summary

1. Any trigger that gives you a web page address.
2. PrintFriendly, Read Page. Map the address to the URL field. Output Format: Markdown.
3. An AI node, or your own step, using the content field.

Convert a very long page in the background

Most pages do not need this. Use it when a page is so long that the node runs out of time.

1. Any trigger that gives you a web page address.
2. PrintFriendly, Convert, with Run Asynchronously turned on in Options. It returns a Job ID.
3. Wait a minute or so, which is enough for most documents.
4. PrintFriendly, Get Job. Map Job ID from the Convert node, and turn on Download File.
5. Google Drive, Upload. Use the binary field from the Get Job node.

Instead of polling, you can set a Webhook URL in the Convert options and have PrintFriendly post the finished job to a Webhook node.