Convert Webpage to PDF Online using PDF.co

Endpoint

• URL: https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/url
• Method: POST

Headers

Key: x-api-key

Value: {{x-api-key}}

Description: Required. API key for PDF.co. Get yours at https://pdf.co/

Now after setting the above endpoint and headers, we need to pass/set the following parameters:

• Url*: Link to input HTML file or website page to be converted.
• margins (optional): Set to css style margins like 10px, 5mm, 5in for all sides or “5px 5px 5px 5px”
• paperSize (optional): Can be Letter, A4, A5, A6 or custom size in pixels, mm or inches with width and height separated by space like this: “200 300”, “200px 300px”, “200mm 300mm”, “20cm 30cm”
• orientation (optional): Set to Portrait or Landscape. Portrait by default.
• printBackground (optional): true by default. Set to false to disable printing of background.
• header (optional): Set to HTML for the header to be applied on every page at the header.
• footer (optional): Set an HTML for the footer to be applied on every page at the bottom.

Check out the JavaScript source code that was used for this activity.

Javascript (Node.js) Code Snippet

var https = require("https");
var path = require("path");
var fs = require("fs");

// The authentication key (API Key).
const API_KEY = "***********************************";

// URL of web page to convert to PDF document.
const SourceUrl = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_sheet_(web_development)";
// Destination PDF file name
const DestinationFile = "./result.pdf";

// Prepare request to `Web Page to PDF` API endpoint
var queryPath = `/v1/pdf/convert/from/url`;
// JSON payload for api request
var jsonPayload = JSON.stringify({
    name: path.basename(DestinationFile), url: SourceUrl
});

var reqOptions = {
    host: "api.pdf.co",
    method: "POST",
    path: queryPath,
    headers: {
        "x-api-key": API_KEY,
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
        "Content-Length": Buffer.byteLength(jsonPayload, 'utf8')
    }
};
// Send request
var postRequest = https.request(reqOptions, (response) => {
    response.on("data", (d) => {
        // Parse JSON response
        var data = JSON.parse(d);       
        if (data.error == false) {
            // Download PDF file
            var file = fs.createWriteStream(DestinationFile);
            https.get(data.url, (response2) => {
                response2.pipe(file)
                .on("close", () => {
                    console.log(`Generated PDF file saved as "${DestinationFile}" file.`);
                });
            });
        }
        else {
            // Service reported error
            console.log(data.message);
        }
    });
}).on("error", (e) => {
    // Request error
    console.log(e);
});

// Write request data
postRequest.write(jsonPayload);
postRequest.end();

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