HTML to PDF API

Why HTML to PDF API

Creating PDF from HTML is a complex and resource-intensive task. The Pdfcrowd API provides this functionality as a service that runs in the cloud. All you need on your end is our lightweight client library that doesn't put any load on your system and that allows easy communication with the API. Alternatively, you can communicate with the API directly over HTTP.

The service internally uses a real web browser to render HTML, which ensures high fidelity output. The API offers a wide range of configuration options for customizing PDF generation down to the smallest detail.

Features

HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript support
Convert a local HTML file or a public web page
Page size and layout customization
Headers and footers with page numbering
Fillable PDF forms and digital signatures
Page break control - force or avoid
Hide or remove parts of the contents
Convert only selected part of contents
Custom JavaScript on-the-fly injection
Screen and print @media queries
Session-based and HTTP Basic authentication
Data templates - json, xml, csv, yaml
Custom CSS styling for PDF output
Automatic table of contents generation
Background and foreground watermarks
Readability preprocessing to remove clutter
PDF password protection and metadata
Convert the mobile or desktop web page version

Integration Examples

We provide API client libraries for many programming languages. Integration takes just a couple of minutes and a few lines of code.

// install: "composer require pdfcrowd/pdfcrowd"
require "pdfcrowd.php";

$api = new \Pdfcrowd\HtmlToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d");
$api->convertUrlToFile("http://example.com", "document.pdf");

more PHP examples

// install from Maven: https://search.maven.org/artifact/com.pdfcrowd/pdfcrowd/
import com.pdfcrowd.*;

Pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient api =
    new Pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d");
api.convertUrlToFile("https://example.com", "document.pdf");

more Java examples

// install: "nuget install -OutputDirectory packages Pdfcrowd.Official"
pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient api =
    new pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d");

api.convertUrlToFile("https://example.com", "document.pdf");

more .NET examples

# install: "pip install pdfcrowd"
import pdfcrowd

api = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d")
api.convertUrlToFile("https://example.com", "example.pdf")

more Python examples

// install: "npm install pdfcrowd"
var pdfcrowd = require("pdfcrowd");
var api = new pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient("demo",
                                       "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d");
api.convertUrlToFile("https://example.com", "document.pdf",
                     function(err, fileName) { /* done */ });

more Node.js examples

# install: "gem install pdfcrowd"
require "pdfcrowd"

api = Pdfcrowd::HtmlToPdfClient.new("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d")
api.convertUrlToFile("https://example.com", "document.pdf")

more Ruby examples

curl -u "demo:ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d" \
     -F "url=https://example.com" \
     -o document.pdf \
     https://api.pdfcrowd.com/convert/

more cURL examples

// install: "go get github.com/pdfcrowd/pdfcrowd-go"
import ("github.com/pdfcrowd/pdfcrowd-go")

api := pdfcrowd.NewHtmlToPdfClient("demo", "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d")
api.ConvertUrlToFile("https://example.com", "document.pdf")

more Go examples

# install: "pip install pdfcrowd"
$ html2pdf -user-name "demo" \
>          -api-key "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d" \
>          "https://example.com" > document.pdf

more CLI examples

Documentation

Why HTML to PDF API

Features

Integration Examples

Code Generator

Language

Framework

WordPress