How can I automate HTML-to-PDF conversions?

Question

I\'ve been using htmldoc for a while, but I\'ve run into some fairly serious limitations. I need the end solution to work on a Linux box. I\'ll be calling this library/utili

Answer 1

An alternative solution that hasn't been answered here is to use an API.

That advantage of them is that you externalize the resources needed for the job and have an up-to-date service that implements the recent features (no needs to update the code or install bugfixes).

For instance, with PDFShift, you can do that with a single POST request at:

POST https://api.pdfshift.io/v2/convert/

And passing the "source" (either an URL or a raw HTML code), and you'll get back a PDF in binary. (Disclaimer: I work at PDFShift).

Here's a code sample in Python:

import requests

response = requests.post(
    'https://api.pdfshift.io/v2/convert/',
    auth=('user_api_key', ''),
    json={"source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF", "landscape": False, "use_print": False}
)

response.raise_for_status()

with open('wikipedia.pdf', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(response.content)

And your PDF will be located at ./wikipedia.pdf