How to convert web page to PDF from URL for HTML to PDF API in VB.NET and PDF.co Web API
How to convert web page to PDF from URL for HTML to PDF API in VB.NET: How To Tutorial
Every ByteScout tool contains example VB.NET 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 VB.NET. PDF.co Web API is the flexible Web API that includes full set of functions from e-signature requests to data extraction, OCR, images recognition, pdf splitting and pdf splitting. Can also generate barcodes and read barcodes from images, scans and pdf.
This rich sample source code in VB.NET for PDF.co Web API includes the number of functions and options you should do calling the API to implement HTML to PDF API. Open your VB.NET project and simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Further enhancement of the code will make it more vigorous.
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ByteScoutWebApiExample.sln
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ByteScoutWebApiExample.vbproj
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Module1.vb
Imports System.IO Imports System.Net Imports Newtonsoft.Json Imports Newtonsoft.Json.Linq Module Module1 ' The authentication key (API Key). ' Get your own by registering at https://app.pdf.co/documentation/api Const API_KEY As String = "***********************************" ' URL of web page to convert to PDF document. const SourceUrl as String = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" ' Destination PDF file name Const DestinationFile As String = ".\result.pdf" Sub Main() ' Create standard .NET web client instance Dim webClient As WebClient = New WebClient() ' Set API Key webClient.Headers.Add("x-api-key", API_KEY) ' Set JSON content type webClient.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json") ' Prepare URL for `Web Page to PDF` API call Dim url As String = "https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/url" ' Prepare requests params as JSON ' See documentation: https : //apidocs.pdf.co Dim parameters As New Dictionary(Of String, Object) parameters.Add("name", Path.GetFileName(DestinationFile)) parameters.Add("url", SourceUrl) ' Convert dictionary of params to JSON Dim jsonPayload As String = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(parameters) Try ' Execute POST request with JSON payload Dim response As String = webClient.UploadString(url, jsonPayload) ' Parse JSON response Dim json As JObject = JObject.Parse(response) If json("error").ToObject(Of Boolean) = False Then ' Get URL of generated PDF file Dim resultFileUrl As String = json("url").ToString() ' Download PDF file webClient.DownloadFile(resultFileUrl, DestinationFile) Console.WriteLine("Generated PDF file saved as ""{0}"" file.", DestinationFile) Else Console.WriteLine(json("message").ToString()) End If Catch ex As WebException Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString()) End Try webClient.Dispose() Console.WriteLine() Console.WriteLine("Press any key...") Console.ReadKey() End Sub End Module
packages.config
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <packages> <package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="10.0.3" targetFramework="net40" /> </packages>
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