Convert HTML to PDF Like a Boss Using DocRaptor
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DocRaptor is an awesome package which allows you to convert your HTML document to PDF. It works with Python 2 and Python 3.
Here are some features of DocRaptor:
- Support any size document, with simple, per-document pricing.
- Supports layout and sizing changes on a per-page basis
- Asynchronous document generation, for long or large documents.
- 99.99% uptime guarantee
Installing DocRaptor
To intall DocRaptor using pip type the following command:
| 1 | pip install docraptor |
You can also use easy_intall:
| 1 | easy_intall install docraptor |
Creating PDFs
Creating PDF from you HTML docment is quite simple just post your HTML to DocRaptor and you will get the response as text/plain.
| 12345678910111213141516 | importdocraptordocraptor.configuration.username="YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"# docraptor.configuration.debug = Truedoc_api=docraptor.DocApi()response=doc_api.create_doc({"test":True,"document_url":"https://docraptor.com/documentation/api","name":"docraptor-python.pdf","document_type":"pdf",})withopen('output.pdf',"wb")asf:f.write(response) |
Run the script and it will create a pdf file named output.pdf.
The preceding code generates PDF synchronously. Here is how you can generate PDFs asynchronously:
| 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243 | importdocraptorimporttimedocraptor.configuration.username="YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"# this key works for test documents# docraptor.configuration.debug = Truedoc_api=docraptor.DocApi()try:create_response=doc_api.create_async_doc({"test":True,# test documents are free but watermarked# "document_content": "Hello World", # supply content directly"document_url":"https://docraptor.com/documentation/api",# or use a url"name":"docraptor-python.pdf",# help you find a document later"document_type":"pdf",# pdf or xls or xlsx"javascript":True,# enable JavaScript processing# "prince_options": {# "media": "screen", # use screen styles instead of print styles# "baseurl": "http://hello.com", # pretend URL when using document_content# },})whileTrue:status_response=doc_api.get_async_doc_status(create_response.status_id)ifstatus_response.status=="completed":doc_response=doc_api.get_async_doc(status_response.download_id)file=open("./docraptor-python.pdf","wb")file.write(doc_response)file.closeprint("Wrote PDF docraptor-python.pdf to current working directory")breakelifstatus_response.status=="failed":print("FAILED")print(status_response)breakelse:time.sleep(1)exceptdocraptor.rest.ApiException aserror:print(error)print(error.message)print(error.code)print(error.response_body) |
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