Using AI Coding Agents with the HTML to PDF API

Overview

Give this Markdown guide to your coding agent when you want it to test, integrate, or troubleshoot the HTML to PDF API.

Agent guide URL: https://pdfcrowd.com/api/html-to-pdf-ai.md

No PDFCrowd account or subscription is needed. The agent guide uses public demo credentials by default.

When to Use It

  • Testing whether PDFCrowd can convert a URL, file, or HTML string well.
  • Adding HTML to PDF conversion to an existing project.
  • Troubleshooting an existing PDFCrowd integration.

Suggested Workflow

The agent reads the guide, tries the conversion, adjusts parameters, and writes the integration code.

Give the agent the guide once:

Use this guide:
https://pdfcrowd.com/api/html-to-pdf-ai.md

Evaluate one source:

Convert this page to PDF using the PDFCrowd API:
https://example.com/report

Tune the result if needed:

Inspect the generated PDF, it is missing images below the fold.

Integrate after the PDF looks right:

Integrate PDFCrowd HTML to PDF API into this project.

Troubleshooting Examples

You can describe the visible symptom directly:

  • The generated PDF is blank.
  • The PDF is missing images below the fold.
  • The PDF shows a login page instead of the report.
  • The live page looks correct, but the PDF shows the mobile layout.
  • The PDF includes a cookie banner.
  • Accordion sections are collapsed in the PDF.
  • Page breaks are ignored.
  • My existing PDFCrowd integration stopped working.

Security Notes

  • Do not paste production credentials into chat.
  • Use personal credentials only when you decide to use your own PDFCrowd account.
  • Ask your agent to read PDFCROWD_USERNAME and PDFCROWD_API_KEY; store the actual values through your normal secret-management process.
  • For private pages, prefer server-side HTML string conversion when you own the application.

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