This page describes how to use our cloud-based API to convert web pages and HTML to PDF from the command line. For general information about the converter, please visit our HTML to PDF API page.
pip install pdfcrowd
We also offer other installation options.
The credentials to access the API are your Pdfcrowd username and the API key. You can try out the API without registering using the following demo credentials:
demo
ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d
To get your personal API credentials, you can start a free API trial or buy the API license.
You can enter a web page or upload an HTML file to get a PDF output preview in our API playground. The playground allows you to interactively play with the API settings and autogenerates corresponding Command Line code that you can copy and paste to your application.
Or you can choose from the examples below and adapt the code to your needs.
Refer to the HTML to PDF Command Line Reference Manual for a description of all command line options.
Here are a few Command Line examples to get you started quickly with the API. See more examples.
html2pdf -user-name "demo" -api-key "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d" \ "http://www.example.com" > "example.pdf"
html2pdf -user-name "demo" -api-key "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d" \ "/path/to/MyLayout.html" > "MyLayout.pdf"
echo -n "<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>" | \ html2pdf -user-name "demo" -api-key "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d" - > "HelloWorld.pdf"
The API can be easily integrated into your environment. You can have our interactive API Playground autogenerate the integration code for you:
-debug-log
to get detailed info about the conversion, such as
load errors, load times, browser console output, etc.
-custom-javascript
with libPdfcrowd.highlightHtmlElements
method call to visualize all HTML elements. See the
backgrounds example
,
borders example
and helper
JavaScript library
documentation.