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A cross-platform solution is to use headless Chromium to save pages as PDFs.

Example I just tried and worked for me:

$ chrome.exe --headless --no-sandbox --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=page.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com

Taken from: https://circumeo.io/blog/entry/html-to-pdf-using-python-and-...

I know you can specify cookies, existing sessions and existing profiles in case authentication is required.

The main issue with this is that you lose text reflowing, so it's more annoying to access on mobile. You also lose interactivity; I've seen links and menus implemented with JavaScript break.

There are also just plenty of web pages worth saving that aren't simple documents.

Indeed. PDF is subpar for many websites.

HTML is also easier to fix is something gets in the way of content.

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