How to Save a Reddit Thread as PDF (with Comments)
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Printing a Reddit thread from the browser gives you a mess of menus and collapsed replies. Here is how to get a clean PDF of the post and its comments instead.
A good Reddit thread is worth keeping: a recipe with three hundred tips under it, a question answered by people who know, a discussion you want to cite. Printing it from the browser is disappointing — menus, ads, sidebars, half the replies collapsed — and the app has no export at all.
Save the thread as a PDF
- Copy the link to the post (Share → Copy Link in the app, or the address bar).
- Paste it into the Reddit post downloader.
- Press PDF.
You get a clean document with:
- the post's title, community, author, date, score and comment count,
- the post's text, with its formatting — headings, lists, quotes, code, links,
- the post's pictures (up to twenty),
- the comments as a tree, each reply indented under the one it answers, with author, date and score.
It is laid out on numbered A4 pages, reads well on a phone, prints without cut-off text, and keeps the links clickable.
Other formats
The same buttons offer the thread in three more shapes:
| Format | What it is for |
|---|---|
| TXT | Plain text, indented by reply level. Opens anywhere, searches easily. |
| Markdown | For Obsidian, Notion, a wiki or a GitHub page. Replies are nested quotes. |
| JSON | For your own scripts and research: every post and comment as data, with ids, times and scores. |
How many comments are included
Reddit's own pages don't show every comment at once — long threads end in "more replies" links that load the rest on demand. The export does what those links do: it takes the 500 comments Reddit sends in one go, best first, then unfolds the replies hidden behind "more replies", a hundred at a time, up to 1,500 comments in one file.
For most threads, that is all of them. For a megathread with thousands, it is the top of the discussion and the busiest branches — usually the part worth keeping — and the document says how many replies were still folded away.
Saving a single comment
Have a link to one comment rather than the whole post? Paste that: you get the comment and its media first, then the post. If the comment has a picture, a GIF or a video in it, the comment downloader saves those too.
Keeping the media as well
The export holds pictures, but not videos. To keep a post's video with sound, its GIF or its audio, the same link works on the Reddit video downloader. A gallery's pictures come as one ZIP from the gallery downloader.
Good to know
- Only public posts can be exported. Private and quarantined communities, and posts marked NSFW, are not supported.
- Deleted comments appear as
[deleted], just as on Reddit. - The text belongs to its authors. Saving it for yourself is one thing; republishing it is another — see our terms of use.
More guides
- How to Save Reddit Images as JPG Instead of WEBP Right-click a Reddit picture, save it, and you get a .webp file that half your apps won’t open. The original JPG or PNG is still there — you just have to ask for it.
- How to Download Reddit Videos on Android and PC On Android and on a computer, saving a Reddit video with its sound takes a link and a press. Here is where the file goes and how to get the quality you want.
- Best RapidSave Alternatives for Downloading Reddit Videos RapidSave, formerly RedditSave, is one of the best-known Reddit video downloaders. If it isn’t working for you, here is what to look for in an alternative.