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Turn any article URL into a presentable deck

Drop in a blog post, news article, or doc page. We strip nav and ads, pull the readable body, and turn it into a fully designed slide deck.

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What it does

Articles aren't presentations. Now they can be.

Long-form articles are dense by design — they reward scrolling, not skimming. A slide deck does the opposite job: it strips a long argument to its visual essence so a room of people can follow along in real time. URL to BananaSlides bridges those two formats automatically.

We fetch the URL server-side, run it through Mozilla's Readability — the same library that powers Firefox's reader view — and end up with just the article body, no navigation, ads, or related-posts widgets. From there it goes through the same outline-and-render pipeline as the rest of our tools.

Teams use it to turn marketing posts into sales-enablement decks, blog announcements into all-hands updates, and competitor write-ups into briefings. If it has a permalink and reads like an article, you can ship it as slides.

How it works

Three steps from source to deck

Paste a URL

Any public article, blog post, documentation page, or news story. We respect robots and only fetch what's publicly accessible.

https://example.com/article

Paste a link…

🍌 BananaSlides reads the page and ships a deck in ~2 minutes.

We clean the body

Readability strips navigation, footers, ads, and sidebars, leaving just the main article body — title, byline, prose.

AI Outline

Draft

1Title slide
2Why this matters
3Key point #1
4Key point #2
5Supporting data
6Counter-arguments
7What to do next

Render the deck

The cleaned article becomes an outline, then a designed deck in your theme, style, and aspect ratio of choice.

Designed deck

Features

What you get

Clean extraction

Built on Mozilla's Readability — the gold standard for stripping articles down to their content body.

Title and byline preserved

When the article has a clean title and author, we carry them through to the title slide.

Handles long-form posts

Up to ~200K characters per article. Multi-thousand-word essays compress to coherent decks.

Theme + style consistency

Pick a theme once; every slide in the deck stays visually consistent across sections.

Two model options

Gemini Nano Banana for fast iteration, Gemini 3 Pro for richer outputs. Switch any time.

Saved to your account

Every generated deck lives in your dashboard, ready to download or rebuild.

Who uses it

Real use cases

Blog post to webinar deck

Take your highest-performing blog post and turn it into the slide deck for your next webinar without rewriting it.

Article briefings

Drop a long article into the input and get a deck-shaped TL;DR your team can actually skim in the meeting.

Doc-page training

Convert internal documentation pages into onboarding decks for new hires who'd rather see than read.

Press release to sales pitch

Customer announcements often start as press releases. Turn one into the matching sales-enablement deck in two minutes.

Manual vs BananaSlides

Why bother automating?

Adapting an article into a deck by hand means copy-paste, restructure, and a template fight. Here's what changes:

Aspect	Manual	BananaSlides
Time from URL to deck	45–90 minutes	2 minutes for a 10-slide deck
Cleanup	Strip nav, ads, comments manually	Readability handles it automatically
Structure	You decide where the breaks go	Outline step weights by importance
Design	Pick a template, fight with placeholders	Real images, themed end-to-end
Updating later	Edit each slide	Re-run with a new URL

The reasoning

Why we use Readability instead of just grabbing the page

If you grab the raw HTML of a modern web page, you get the article plus a sea of nav, ads, recommendation widgets, footers, and cookie banners. Feeding that into an outline step pollutes the result with noise — you end up with slides about "sign up for our newsletter" because that text appears five times.

Mozilla's Readability is what makes Firefox's reader view possible. It scores DOM nodes by how article-like they are and discards everything else, leaving a clean title, byline, and body. We run that on the server with a Workers-compatible DOM polyfill, so even sites that depend on heavy JavaScript still produce readable output in most cases.

The result: outlines that focus on the actual argument of the piece, not the boilerplate around it.

Pro tips

Get cleaner decks from articles

A few habits make Readability-extracted content shine even harder.

Prefer canonical URLs

If a publication has a print or canonical version, use it. They tend to have cleaner HTML than the syndicated or partner versions.

Watch for paywalled pages

If the page hides body content behind a login wall, we'll only see the teaser. Use the publisher's full article URL when possible.

Match slide count to depth

A 500-word post wants 5–8 slides. A 3,000-word deep dive wants 12–18. More than that and slides repeat.

Use a reference image for branded content

If the article is about a specific product, pass a screenshot as a reference image so the deck inherits the look.

FAQ

Common questions

What types of pages work best?

Editorial articles, blog posts, documentation pages, long-form newsletter posts, and reference-style web pages. Anything with a clear title, byline, and body. Pages that are mostly interactive (calculators, dashboards, login pages) won't have much to extract.

Will it work on paywalled articles?

Only if the article body is in the HTML response. Many paywalls put the full text in the HTML and hide it with CSS — that works. Others gate the body entirely behind an auth check — that doesn't. We never log in on your behalf.

How long can the article be?

Up to about 200,000 characters of extracted text. That covers virtually every long-form post you'd reasonably want to turn into a deck. Beyond that we truncate from the end.

Do you store the page content?

We hold the extracted text only as long as needed to generate the deck. The deck itself is saved to your account; the raw scraped HTML is not.

What about non-English articles?

Extraction is language-agnostic. The outline and slide generation steps work in many languages — if you want a specific output language, mention it in the design prompt.

Is this allowed by the source site?

We send a clear user-agent identifying as BananaSlidesBot and only fetch what's publicly accessible. We don't bypass paywalls, ignore robots.txt, or republish content — your generated deck is your derivative use.

Do I need an account?

Yes. Generating slides consumes credits, and credits are tied to your BananaSlides account. New accounts get a small free pack so you can try the tool end-to-end without paying. You can sign up with email or Google in under thirty seconds, and the source you've already entered (URL, file, or prompt) is preserved across the redirect.

Can I edit the slides after generation?

Each generated slide is delivered as a high-resolution image. You can download individual slides, or download the whole deck as a ZIP and drop the images into PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, or Notion as a starting point. For text edits, regenerate the slide with a tweaked outline — the deck is fast enough that iterating beats hand-fixing pixels.

What is the BananaSlides format?

BananaSlides decks are designed to be visual, not bullet-heavy. Each slide is rendered end-to-end by an image model so you get a real layout — typography, illustration, color — instead of a generic template with your text dropped in. You choose the theme, style, and aspect ratio up front, and the AI keeps every slide visually consistent across the deck.

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