QUESTIONS · SOURCES AND LIMITS
Why can NotebookLM not import my website link?
Short answer
NotebookLM fetches links from Google servers, not from your browser. A page fails when it needs a login, sits behind a paywall, blocks automated requests, or shows its text only after scripts run. The fix is to send the text your browser has already loaded, which NotebookLM Ultra Exporter does with Add page text to NotebookLM.
What to know
- This only captures content you can already read; it does not bypass a paywall.
- For a single paragraph, select it and add the selection.
- PDF links sometimes work better downloaded and uploaded as files.
Google changes these menus often. The item's own menu in your notebook shows what is built in today.
Free or Pro?
Free, with no daily export quota and no website account needed. Pro covers the extension only; it does not include a Google subscription or raise NotebookLM's own limits. Current prices are on the pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
The page imported but the content is wrong. Why?
NotebookLM may have captured a cookie notice or navigation instead of the article. Remove the source and add the page text instead.
Related guides
NotebookLM cannot fetch pages that need a login, so a link source fails. With NotebookLM Ultra Exporter, choose Add page text to NotebookLM instead: the.
To save only a passage, select the text on any page, right-click and choose Add selected text to NotebookLM with NotebookLM Ultra Exporter installed.
To add the page you are reading to NotebookLM without copy and paste, click the NotebookLM Ultra Exporter icon, or right-click the page and choose Add this.
NotebookLM cannot open a ChatGPT conversation from its link. Either copy the conversation and paste it as a text source, or open the chat with NotebookLM.
NotebookLM accepts PDF, text and Markdown files, Word documents, Google Docs and Slides, web page links, YouTube links, audio files, images and pasted text.
A PDF over 200 MB or 500,000 words is rejected by NotebookLM. Split it into parts and upload each part as its own source.
Mostly no. A web or file source is a copy taken when you added it; only Google Docs and Slides sources can be re-synced by hand.
Google documents a limit of 50 sources per notebook on the free tier, with each source limited to 500,000 words or 200 MB.