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

Sep 2, 2024·4 Minutes Read

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.

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

IN THIS TUTORIAL

Create a Zap

Select a Trigger App

Select a Trigger Event

Set up Trigger

Test Trigger

Select an Action App

Select an Action Event

Set up Action

Test Action

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

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

Step 4: Set up Trigger

Select the Audience that you want to use

Step 5: Test Trigger

Step 6: Select an Action App

Search and select PDF.co as the 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.

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