I despise multi-page articles with the heat of a million suns. The Page One extension for Safari and Chrome fixes them, automatically displaying the single-page version of articles for several popular news sites. Install the extension now:
Why This Is Awesome
You know the drill: instead of letting you read articles all at once, too many websites chunk them up into multiple pages, interrupting the flow for the cynical purpose of inflating page views for advertisers. That's not only annoying and time consuming, but it also screws up "read it later" services like the excellent Instapaper. Instead of saving the entire article for later reading, you get only the first page—a big drag if you're using the Instapaper app offline.
Web publishers know this is annoying and so they frequently throw us a bone by offering a single-page view of articles. That's what they should do in the first place, and the Page One extension makes it so. I built the creation for myself for sites I use frequently and so, for the moment, it gives you single-page articles for only these sites:
- The New York Times
- The New Yorker
- The Atlantic
- Slate
- Wired
- Vanity Fair
- The New York Observer
- Details
- Gourmet
Update: July 24, 2011
Version 1.1 of the extension adds support for these additional sites:
- Businessweek
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Foreign Policy
- GQ
- Intelligent Life
- Lapham's Quarterly
- The Nation
- The New Republic
- Outside Online
- Rolling Stone
- Village Voice
- The Washington Post
Let me know if there are other sites you'd like to see supported, and I'll be happy to take a look. Meantime, happy uninterrupted reading!
Update July 27, 2011
Many thanks to everyone for all the suggestions for additional sites, keep 'em coming! I'll take a look at each and every one. A caveat: the way that the extension works is that it silently changes URLs for multipage articles to those of publicly available single-page or print-friendly views. In other words, for me to support a site, it has to have public a single-page or print-friendly view. (The excellent Ars Technica site, for example, requires a paid subscription to get access to the single-page view, a clever perk for loyal readers, but one which means I can't add it to the extension.) Ultimately, whether I can support a site depends on the content management system the site uses. So, feel free to suggest away, and I'll see what I can do!
How to request support for a site
Just add to the comments below. No need to add a comment if your site has already been suggested. When you suggest a site, it would be great if you could also post a URL to a multipage article on that site along with a link to its corresponding print/email page.
If you're code-inclined and enjoy this kind of thing, you can further contribute by helping me identify the URL pattern to use. Some sites simply add a query string like page=all to the URL. Feel free to point that out if you see that pattern. Other sites actually change the form of the URL; The Atlantic, for example, replaces /archive/ with /print/ in the URL itself to get a printer-friendly page. If you like doing regex, feel free to suggest the pattern to pull off this switcheroo. (Not trying to dish off the work to you good folks, but if it's something you enjoy poking at, feel free.)
How does Page One differ from Readability or Safari Reader?
I'm in love with Readability. I am publicly saying here and now, I want to make out with each and every one of the folks responsible. But it's a different take. Readability strips out the page's design, including its navigation. The goal is to send the site away and leave only the content behind. Page One meanwhile leaves the site design in place (in most cases), letting you see the article's entire content without breaking from the site's browsing experience. You don't have to take any action to trigger Page One's functionality, either. It makes its changes silently so that you're getting full content as part of your casual browsing. Page One and Readability are nice complements, I think.
Thanks again for all the good words, folks, and I'll see about implementing your suggestions over the next few days.













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Great idea. Can you please add ZDNet to your list?
Does ZDNet have multipage articles? Their blog posts (which is pretty much everything now) all seem to be single pagers. Feel free to shoot me a URL to a multipage article over there, and I'll take a peek!
Ars Technica!
Ars Technica, please!
Arstechnica would be nice! Example multi-page article: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars
Thank you very much for the nice work. Nice add-on!
Thanks, was a but sad when "reader" went paid-only. Anyway, onto the requests :-)
-> Ars Technica -> TUAW -> Apple Insider -> Salon.com (they have this 'continue reading' ... um .. cr4p)
Amazing work. To add to site requests: Ars Technica and Alternet (www.alternet.org), they would be essential.
Infoworld.com
Another vote for Ars Technica.
This is a techie site, and maybe that's not your beat, but I'd like to see AnandTech: anandtech.com on the list. Closer to your preferred sites, I'd also like to see the NY Review of Books: www.nybooks.com/
+1 for Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars
Hi gang,
Thanks for the kind words and for the Ars Technica suggestions! I looked at Ars and would've added it if I could. The way the Page One plugin works is that it silently changes URLs of multi-page articles to that of a publicly available single-page or printer-friendly view. In other words, for me to add a site, the site has to offer a single-page view somewhere.
Ars Technica offers single-page views, but only for paid subscribers. a clever perk for folks who care enough about the content to pay for it. Unfortunately, that means that I can't add Ars to the supported sites.
I'll keep an eye on this in case it changes.
w00t! thanks for doing this -- it had gotten annoying enough that I had downloaded the sdk for safari extensions but never got around to it.
Ars Technica. One-page is reader only but something to auto-trigger it would be nice.
This is great! Would love it if you would si.com to the list
startribune.com
slate.com
Could you add psychologytoday.com?
Please add some German websites:
spiegel.de (most visited German news site) zeit.de
How is this different from the "Reader" button built into Safari?
Josh--
If you set up some sort of API or web form to add additional sites to the list, I, and probably others, would be happy to add support for the additional sites on our own.
gaming sites like Gamespot.com and ign.com
Awesome idea. Thanks.
Business Insider (businessinsider.com) has a lot of "10 {Reasons|Ways|Things} {You|Apple|Google} {can|can't} {Succeed|Fail|Win|Lose}" articles. By default these are split into 10 separate pages. There's usually a "View As One Page" link that changes the 10 pages into a single list. Looks like they just add ?op=1 to the end of the URL.
csmonitor.com, please and thanks!
Note: many of their articles do an artificial page split, but not all offer a 'View as Single Page'. Tricky.
This looks great! Any plans for a Firefox version?
Ars Technica, please!!!
ChicagoTribune.com please
wow. so many requests for Ars means you like the content. Pay for a premier account then - $50 bucks for a year.. 4 dollars a month. one page view can be set as the default. and do you really want to read 100 pages of Siracusa's review on one page?
Ars subscribers get epub, mobi and pdf versions. if you're to too cheap to pay for Ars Premier, then you can get that article for 5 bucks from amazon (there's a kindle version).
Marco Arment (author: Instapaper) respects the one page boundary at Ars. You should too.
http://www.marco.org/2011/07/19/siracusa-multipage
Safari's reader option allows you to read the entire Siracusa review on a continuous page. Any idea how apple gets that to work? Maybe it could be incorporated into the plugin somehow
Awesome extension! Please add Complex to your list:
www.complex.com
I love to see Wired. There are two kinds of articles that need different things appended to the page. For url: /wired.com.*20[0-9][0-9]/, append: "/all/1"
for the rest of them. append: "?currentPage=all"
Oh, never mind I'm an idiot and you already did Wired.
Wall Street Journal
Though, Wired isn't working for some of the older articles like http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.06/statestreet.html
Hi gang, thanks for all the suggestions, keep 'em coming! I've added an update above with an explanation of how the extension works, its limitations, and some tips for helping to make it easier for me to add your favorite site. You'll also see a quick explanation of how Page One differs from Readability and Safari Reader.
Also: you're all awesome. That is all.
Now if you can put slideshows onto one page. The NYT blogs as well as many other sites use the slideshows for what should just be one long page.
Seconding - ArsTechnica please!
Does this do something that Auto-Pagerize for Safari doesn't? Although there are occasions that Auto-Pagerize fails, in general I find it very good for overcoming the multi-page article increase-my-page-views scheme.
The New York Review of Books would be nice and they already do have an easy to spot "Single Page" link on each of their articles.
Nice if I could not have to click it :-)
boston.com, please
Please see the update above for how Page One differs from Safari Reader and the Readability service. (It doesn't change the format of the page and simply integrates the full-page content invisibly into your casual browsing.)
PajamasMedia.com
Thank you.
I would love to install this once it's in the Chrome Web Store.
Not to impugn your certainly stellar development skills, but it's a necessary security precaution -- people shouldn't be encouraged to go around installing things from random web sites.
please add zeit.de
thank you.
theregister.co.uk
Another request for chicagotribune.com, please.
nymag.com
Thanks again for an awesome plugin and your responsiveness. I want to second the vote for complex.com.
Macworld, Macworld, Macworld! macworld.co.uk will do "two page" reviews with, almost ALWAYS, a single paragraph-long conclusion on page two.
Oh, and I will second spiegel.de - their international section often has long, multi-page articles.
Rolling Stone?
Great stuff. Could you please add nybooks.com? Thanks. -peter
Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
great work! A request for Pajamas Media, please.
Alternet (alternet.org). Thanks.
Business Insider please. Thanks!
Some British papers would be good like the Guardian and Independant
ta
LOVE this idea, you're the man for creating this.
Publisher suggestion: VentureBeat. They don't offer a single page or print view (like Ars but not b/c of a paid offering) but hopefully it's fixable.
How about adding New Scientist? They include a link to view the entire article for articles with more than one page. (They are a subscription site, but offer a lot of content to non-subscribers.)
Latimes.com please
How about Cracked.com!
nationalreview.com please? thanks.
theregister.co.uk
Regular: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/fukushima_friday/
Mobile (one page, no ads!): http://m.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/fukushima_friday/
Entertainment Weekly (ew.com). Most articles are short blurbs, but when they go recapping a serious drama, it can be almost 10 pages!
Gamespot 2 Page Article Example: http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/call-of-juarez-the-cartel/review.html?tag=games%3Bgame_title%3B5
Printable from that article: http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/call-of-juarez-the-cartel/review.html?tag=stitialclk%3Bgamespace&page=2&print=1
Alternet.org:
Regular:
http://www.alternet.org/world/151788/glenngreenwald%3Awhydoweharassmuslimsbutnotwhite%2Cnordic_males/
All pages of the article as one page:
http://www.alternet.org/world/151788/glenngreenwald%3Awhydoweharassmuslimsbutnotwhite%2Cnordic_males/?page=entire
I love this plugin and the idea behind it. This was an instant install.
One more vote, btw, for German weekly "Die Zeit"! (Explained above. Just add "/komplettansicht" to the URL.)
Thank you!
Christian Science Monitor please-- CSMonitor.com
Great idea, great extension. I fully support the suggestion to add the NY Review of Books to your list. Thank you.
http://www.zeit.de/
Thanks. Next- how about an extension that puts all the articles on all these sites into a single page? Thx
Great extension. Many thanks.
You already hit the main sites I would ask for which is doubly cool but I would suggest:
Thanks.
The Globe and Mail (http://globeandmail.com) would be an easy candidate, not that I read it or anything. :P You simply add "singlepage/" to any URI matching the pattern /\/article\d+\//.
With a $ at the end of the pattern, of course. Oops.
televisionwithoutpity.com, please.
ArsTechnica! Please!
Just found a print version of the register, which might be a better choice than the mobile version:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/fukushima_friday/print.html
I went ahead and coded up the patch to make this work with theregister; enjoy!
https://gist.github.com/1111466
A vote for The Register (theregister.co.uk), please. Thanks. Great extension!
latimes.com would be a great addition. They do some wonderful long-form journalism. Thanks for considering it!
Page-one is GREAT. Can you add The Pittsburgh Post Gazette?
These are the URL's of first page, second page and View entire article
first http://www.postgazette.com/pg/11209/1163477-96.stm
second http://www.postgazette.com/pg/11209/1163477-96-2.stm
entire http://www.postgazette.com/pg/11209/1163477-96-0.stm
I checked this for another 2 page article and for a three page, it uses -3.
How does one know that your list is updated?
Thanks
LA Times? (The first page I happened to visit after installing, and it had a split pager.) http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0727-red-light-cameras-20110727,0,496609.story
Salon.com please! The "continue reading" button is supposed to expand the article inline, but doesn't work correctly in Chrome (it loads an entirely new page).
Thank you so much! This is great.
boston.com, please. It's already been suggested, but I can add that it appears to simply use ?page=full. Here's an example of a multi-page article:
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2011/07/28/ortizslamhelpssoxcrown_royals/
... and its single page equivalent:
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2011/07/28/ortizslamhelpssoxcrown_royals/?page=full
I hope this is helpful, and thank you for Page One!
National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/272915/looking-economic-abyss-conrad-black
print version:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/272915
How about Economic Times?
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-07-26/news/298163041hotel-room-sofitel-travelers
Ars Technica again!!
Hey--suggestion for slight tweak. This extension doesn't allow Print View on nytimes.com, which makes it hard to print, or save a nice clean pdf of a story.
Print view is an ally in the fight against multi-page articles!
A vote for TheStreet.com, here's a link... and yes, it's MY article and I hate what they do to it... shhh.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/madmoneywrap.html
With the extension enabled, I'm getting 404 errors for some wired articles. The URL I'm trying to hit [1] and the URL after Page One goes to town [2].
Intended: [1] http://www.wired.com/beyondthebeyond/2011/07/reality-as-a-failed-state/
404'ed: [2] http://www.wired.com/beyondthebeyond/2011/07/reality-as-a-failed-state/all/1
+1 for New Scientist
This breaks the relationship between Disqus threads and articles at the Atlantic. If I click on a Disqus link (in email) I get sent to the print page, not the still live one. Not sure how it's doing that (does it look for a print style sheet and then just display that version?). So I can't use it yet.
For Slate articles reached via an RSS feed, they append “?from=rss”, which breaks the regex detection. Here’s a patch that should work but I haven’t tested yet: https://gist.github.com/1115893
The AV Club would be great for when they do those long interviews with show creators.
I second the request for startribune.com. Looks to me like "?page=all" appended to the URL is all it takes...
For the Washington Post, the extension currently redirects from the paginated view (ending in story.html) to the printable view (ending in print.html). It should instead probably use the single-page view (ending in singlePage.html), which uses the normal story formatting but with all the content on a single page rather than paginated. I find that much more readable. (When the Post’s redesign first went up a few months ago, there was a link to the single-page version in each multi-page story. They’ve stopped displaying that link now, but the single-page version still exists for each story if you enter the proper URL.)
In general, for sites whose only single-page view is the printable view, it would be nice if the extension offered an option about whether to redirect the user or not. I hate multi-page articles, but I arguably hate printable view in a web browser even more, and so would prefer not to be forwarded to the printable versions (although Safari’s can format those nicely with its “reader” button).
Thus, this URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/college-affirmative-action-back-on-supreme-courts-horizon/2011/07/28/gIQApXnwlI_story.html
Currently forwards here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/college-affirmative-action-back-on-supreme-courts-horizon/2011/07/28/gIQApXnwlI_print.html
But should instead go here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/college-affirmative-action-back-on-supreme-courts-horizon/2011/07/28/gIQApXnwlI_singlePage.html
Men's Health
http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/gaintenpoundsofmuscle/
http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/gaintenpoundsofmuscle/printer.php
The plugin breaks Bruce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond on Wired i.e. http://www.wired.com/beyondthebeyond/2011/07/dead-media-beat-vannevar-bush-memex-animation/ http://www.wired.com/beyondthebeyond/2011/07/web-semantics-telegraph-operators/all/1 etc.
I just treat this stupid fad as another IQ-test.
If you are a multi-page-whore, nothing you have to say is worth reading anyway.
One page load, or one pant load.
xconomy.com
Firefox extension too hopeful- or would you consider doing this?
thestreet.com would be much appreciated. :-)
Minor bug report: the Chrome extension(? - I haven't tested the Safari version) appears to naively whack the query parameter at the end of the full URL; thus if you're direct-linked to a URL with a hash fragment it won't work. Example.
Other than that, this is the Best Thing Ever.
Gamasutra.com ?
The Washington Times – just make sure "/?page=all" is at the end of the article URL.
Page One is a great extension!
The extension currently breaks the “email this” link on New York Times articles, which works via a hidden POST form submission and some javascript. In fact, by trying to redirect to a new URL without catching the form values, it will break any POST submission. Not sure if there’s a good fix to that other than finding and whitelisting all of the form submission URLs. In general, the extension (somewhat understandably) isn’t too smart about NYTimes pages; I’ve seen it add ?pagewanted=all to .jpg’s, to pop-up pages (e.g., clicking an image for the larger view in a pop-up window), and at least once I’ve seen ?pagewanted=1&pagewanted=all, which obviously shouldn’t happen either!
Would be great if users can add websites on their own. a.l.a similar to adding new search engine in chrome. can you add indianexpress.com the regular url http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Cornered-govt-to-debate-Maken-statement/829162/ print version http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Cornered-govt-to-debate-Maken-statement/829162/0
philly.com, please
The Christian Science Monitor, csmonitor.com, PLEASE!!!!
Love the extension. Another NY Times glitch: When one is not logged in, attempting to log in with the extension enabled does not successfully keep you logged in. You notice this when you get the pop-up window telling you your 20 free articles are used up. A workaround is to temporarily disable the extension, then log-in, the reenable the extension.
For the Atlantic, the extension seems take away the links in an article (doesn't happen with the NYT so I assume that is just the way the Atlantic rolls). I like the links there and the online articles are short. It would be great to be able to disable the extension for specific sites.
Thanks for the service!
Love it, but it conistently breaks Wired's blogs. It seems likely that as you add new sites, more and more will break for whatever reason, and upkeep will be a growing problem; and, of course, the vast majority of users will never figure out why they're getting 404s - it took me quite a while.
Maybe you should breaking it out a bit, with (a) a config page, and (b) a feed allows you to add new sites. Right now, to see a Wired blog item, I need to disable the extension; it would be much nicer to click a box exempting Wired from Page One.
hey there - would really love the blogs.forbes.com site to be included into the list of sites supported by your app. Much thanks!
EDGE magazine, please. Here's an example page: http://www.next-gen.biz/features/making-grand-theft-auto-iv
Thanks! Greg
?nopager=1 gives you full page articles on The Weekly Standard. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/vodka-nation_582069.html?nopager=1 for example.
I'd like to second Scott's note from above. As implemented, Page One currently breaks the "email this" functionality from New York Times pages. Not a huge deal, but a drag nonetheless.
htttp://www.zeit.de please!
Since new Slate website design was unfolded, the Page One extension no longer works there?
Please add NYMag.com! Thanks for this greatly needed extension!
Creative Loafing (Atlanta's alt weekly). Example of multipage story: http://clatl.com/atlanta/living-walls-welcomes-global-street-artists-thinkers-to-atlanta/Content?oid=1981611
Url for 2nd page: http://clatl.com/gyrobase/living-walls-welcomes-global-street-artists-thinkers-to-atlanta/Content?oid=1981611&storyPage=2
Url for viewing as a single page: http://clatl.com/gyrobase/living-walls-welcomes-global-street-artists-thinkers-to-atlanta/Content?oid=1981611&showFullText=true
Also, Creative Loafing also owns the Chicago Reader (both CLATL and the Reader are in the top 20 alt weeklies in the US), Washington City Paper and maybe a few others, so it's possible if they are on the same CMS, they fix could work for all.
Oh an also, ABC News. Example:
2 pages: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/year-twitter-2011s-top-tweets/story?id=15065335#.Tt6p8WNC_jy
Single page: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/year-twitter-2011s-top-tweets/story?id=15065335&singlePage=true#.Tt6oyGNC_jw
Hi, Can you add support for the new Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website? It is currently on http://ppgnow.com, but will soon (<2 months) be on the http://post-gazette.com domain. It should be much easier to add support for this site than the old one:
Thanks!
Josh,
Your Chrome plug-in ROCKS. Here's a suggested site and I've done the URL breakdown for you -- it's extremely easy.
Normal Page That Requires You to Click from Page to Page
- http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-sanchez-endorsements-2012-1
To "View as One Page", they just add "?op=1" to the end of the page's URL.
Full Page Requiring No Clicking
- http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-sanchez-endorsements-2012-1?op=1
Any chance that would be easy to add to the plug-in? :-) :-) :-)
I only ask because I love the coverage businessinsider.com does across Tech, Sports, Business, etc. Just the interesting stuff worth reading.
Thanks and keep up the great work!
Scott Butler
scottpbutler@gmail.com
I love the extension, but it has not been working for me on Slate.com.
Josh,
I made a small change to the Chrome extension (haven't looked at the Safari version yet) to avoid adding pagewanted=all to NYTimes links that already have a pagewanted= in the URL (this enables getting to the print-formatted page, for example). I tried to make it generalizable to other sites, but haven't tested it.
Here's the diff:
Thanks for PageOne!
Please consider addition of The Globe and Mail website.
Please add HowStuffWorks, eg: http://people.howstuffworks.com/swearing.htm/printable
Josh, this is a really useful extension — thanks.
Unfortunately, when enabled (in Safari), the extension breaks the account management pages at https://homedelivery.nytimes.com, making it impossible to update subscriber billing info. It would be helpful if extension allowed specific subdomains to be excluded.
For PJ Media, append
?singlepage=true; e.g.,pjmedia.com/arbitrary_stuff/?singlepage=true.latimes.com
please
How about the Star Tribune in Minneapolis?
http://www.startribune.com/nation/155889335.html
http://www.startribune.com/nation/155889335.html?page=all
Slate's new format is pretty simple: it substitutes the trailing
.htmlwith_single.htmllike so:(before)
http://www.slate.com/[…]/website_pagination_stories_should_load_into_a_single_page_every_time_.html(after)
http://www.slate.com/[…]/website_pagination_stories_should_load_into_a_single_page_every_time_.single.htmlFirst off, thank you so much for this extension.
Could you add support for Flavorpill?
Standard paginated article: http://www.flavorwire.com/340359/horror-films-you-didnt-realize-were-based-on-true-stories
One page version (add "all=1" as query param) http://www.flavorwire.com/340359/horror-films-you-didnt-realize-were-based-on-true-stories?all=1
Thanks again! - F
Danger Room in Wired is using something different...
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/12/steath-secrets/all/1?pid=1688&viewall=true
Reason.com would be good, just needs /singlepage at the end of the address for an article - ie from http://reason.com/archives/2013/02/10/liquor-privatization-could-mean-new-mark to http://reason.com/archives/2013/02/10/liquor-privatization-could-mean-new-mark/singlepage
slate.com just needs .single before the .html
thanks, love your extension!
Why is there not a version of this for Firefox?!
Please add http://www.alternet.org
To get the single-page version of an article they just add the following query string to the URL: ?paging=off
Here's an example: http://www.alternet.org/glenn-greenwald-how-marriage-equality-movement-uprooting-centuries-religious-and-social-dogma?paging=off
Could you do that automatically to long stories on their site?
Thanks!
I think there's a new issue with Village Voice; opening this link [http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-04-24/news/stoya-pop-star-of-porn/] with the extension turned on launches into an endless refresh loop. But I can open this link [http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-04-24/news/stoya-pop-star-of-porn/full/] explicitly without an issue.
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