How to convert web page to PDF from link for HTML to PDF API in PHP using PDF.co Web API

Tutorial: how to convert web page to PDF from link for HTML to PDF API in PHP

Every ByteScout tool contains example PHP source codes that you can find here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. PDF.co Web API helps with HTML to PDF API in PHP. PDF.co Web API is the Web API with a set of tools for documents manipulation, data conversion, data extraction, splitting and merging of documents. Includes image recognition, built-in OCR, barcode generation and barcode decoders to decode bar codes from scans, pictures and pdf.

PHP code samples for PHP developers help to speed up the application’s code writing when using PDF.co Web API. Open your PHP project and simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! This basic programming language sample code for PHP will do the whole work for you in implementing HTML to PDF API in your app.

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web-page-to-pdf.php

      
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>PDF Extractor Results</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php 

// Get submitted form data
$apiKey = $_POST["apiKey"]; // The authentication key (API Key). Get your own by registering at https://app.pdf.co/documentation/api
$sourceUrl = $_POST["sourceUrl"];

// Prepare URL for `Web Page to PDF` API call
$url = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/url";

// Prepare requests params
$parameters = array();
$parameters["name"] = "result.pdf";
$parameters["url"] = $sourceUrl;

// Create Json payload
$data = json_encode($parameters);

// Create request
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("x-api-key: " . $apiKey, "Content-type: application/json"));
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

// Execute request
$result = curl_exec($curl);

if (curl_errno($curl) == 0)
{
    $status_code = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    
    if ($status_code == 200)
    {
        $json = json_decode($result, true);
        
        if ($json["error"] == false)
        {
            // Get URL of generated PDF file
            $resultFileUrl = $json["url"];
            
            // Display link to the file with conversion results
            echo "<div><h2>Conversion Result:</h2><a href='" . $resultFileUrl . "' target='_blank'>" . $resultFileUrl . "</a></div>";
        }
        else
        {
            // Display service reported error
            echo "<p>Error: " . $json["message"] . "</p>"; 
        }
    }
    else
    {
        // Display request error
        echo "<p>Status code: " . $status_code . "</p>"; 
        echo "<p>" . $result . "</p>"; 
    }
}
else
{
    // Display CURL error
    echo "Error: " . curl_error($curl);
}

// Cleanup
curl_close($curl);

?>

</body>
</html>

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