How to Get Data from Mailchimp as PDF using PDF.co and Zapier

Mailchimp is very useful in sending campaigns to your customers, subscribers, and prospect customers/subscribers. Getting new subscribers and having a list of them in a separate PDF would be very useful especially when you want to compile them. You can automate this process using PDF.co Web API and Zapier.

We will use this sample PDF template for this tutorial. We will insert the data from the new subscribers in Mailchimp into this PDF.

Screenshot of the Source PDF Template
Screenshot of the Source PDF Template

First, make sure that you already have a subscriber in your Mailchimp campaign so that Zapier can fetch data and continue with the steps.

Screenshot of Subscribers in Mailchimp
Screenshot of Subscribers in Mailchimp


Contents

01
Create a Zap
    02
    Select a Trigger App
      03
      Select a Trigger Event
        04
        Set up Trigger
          05
          Test Trigger
            06
            Select an Action App
              07
              Select an Action Event
                08
                Set up Action
                  09
                  Test Action
                    10
                    Result

                      Step 1: Create a Zap

                      • On your Zapier dashboard, click Create Zap

                      Step 2: Select a Trigger App

                      • For this tutorial, we will use Mailchimp as our Trigger App
                      Select a trigger app

                      Step 3: Select a Trigger Event

                      • For the Trigger Event, select New Subscriber. This will trigger the Zap every time you have a new subscriber
                      Select a trigger event

                      Step 4: Set up Trigger

                      • Select the Audience that you want to use
                      Set up trigger

                      Step 5: Test Trigger

                      Test trigger
                      Test trigger successful

                      Step 6: Select an Action App

                      • Search and select PDF.co as the Action App
                      Select an action app

                      Step 7: Select an Action Event

                      • Select PDF Filler as the Action Event. This will be the API that we will use to fill out the template PDF.
                      Select an action event

                      Step 8: Set up Action

                      • For the Source PDF, insert the link where your template PDF is located
                      • For the Text objects, put the X and Y coordinates where you want to insert the text, the page, the data from Mailchimp, font size, and font family. You can get the X and Y coordinates of your PDF with our PDF/Edit/Add Helper.
                      • You may also set the name of your output PDF
                      Set up action
                      Set a name for your output

                      Step 9: Test Action

                      • You will be given an output link where you can view and download your output PDF
                      Test action
                      Test action successful

                      Step 10: Result

                      • Here’s what the result looks like
                      Screenshot of the Output PDF
                      Screenshot of the Output PDF

                      In this tutorial, you’ve learned how to insert data from Mailchimp into a PDF using PDF.co and Zapier.