This page contains various examples of using the HTML to PDF API in Python. The examples are complete and fully functional. Read more about how to convert HTML to PDF in Python.
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertUrlToFile('http://www.example.com', 'example.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # run the conversion and store the result into the "pdf" variable pdf = client.convertUrl('http://www.example.com') # at this point the "pdf" variable contains PDF raw data and # can be sent in an HTTP response, saved to a file, etc. except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # create an output stream for the conversion result output_stream = open('example.pdf', 'wb') # run the conversion and write the result into the output stream client.convertUrlToStream('http://www.example.com', output_stream) # close the output stream output_stream.close() except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertFileToFile('/path/to/MyLayout.html', 'MyLayout.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # run the conversion and store the result into the "pdf" variable pdf = client.convertFile('/path/to/MyLayout.html') # at this point the "pdf" variable contains PDF raw data and # can be sent in an HTTP response, saved to a file, etc. except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # create an output stream for the conversion result output_stream = open('MyLayout.pdf', 'wb') # run the conversion and write the result into the output stream client.convertFileToStream('/path/to/MyLayout.html', output_stream) # close the output stream output_stream.close() except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertStringToFile('<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>', 'HelloWorld.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # run the conversion and store the result into the "pdf" variable pdf = client.convertString('<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>') # at this point the "pdf" variable contains PDF raw data and # can be sent in an HTTP response, saved to a file, etc. except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # create an output stream for the conversion result output_stream = open('HelloWorld.pdf', 'wb') # run the conversion and write the result into the output stream client.convertStringToStream('<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1></body></html>', output_stream) # close the output stream output_stream.close() except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setDebugLog(True) # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertFileToFile('/path/to/MyLayout.html', 'MyLayout.pdf') # print URL to the debug log print('Debug log url: {}'.format(client.getDebugLogUrl())) # print the number of available conversion credits in your account print('Remaining credit count: {}'.format(client.getRemainingCreditCount())) # print the number of credits consumed by the conversion print('Consumed credit count: {}'.format(client.getConsumedCreditCount())) # print the unique ID of the conversion print('Job id: {}'.format(client.getJobId())) # print the total number of pages in the output document print('Page count: {}'.format(client.getPageCount())) # print the size of the output in bytes print('Output size: {}'.format(client.getOutputSize())) except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setPageSize('Letter') client.setOrientation('landscape') client.setNoMargins(True) # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertUrlToFile('http://www.example.com', 'letter_landscape.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setHeaderHeight('15mm') client.setFooterHeight('10mm') client.setHeaderHtml('<a class=\'pdfcrowd-source-url\' data-pdfcrowd-placement=\'href-and-content\'></a>') client.setFooterHtml('<center><span class=\'pdfcrowd-page-number\'></span></center>') client.setMarginTop('0') client.setMarginBottom('0') # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertUrlToFile('http://www.example.com', 'header_footer.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setEnablePdfForms(True) # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertStringToFile('<html><body>Enter name:<input type=text></body></html>', 'form.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setScaleFactor(300) # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertUrlToFile('http://www.example.com', 'zoom_300.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setAuthor('Pdfcrowd') client.setTitle('Hello World') client.setSubject('Demo') client.setKeywords('Pdfcrowd,demo') # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertUrlToFile('http://www.example.com', 'with_metadata.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setPageLayout('single-page') client.setPageMode('full-screen') client.setInitialZoomType('fit-page') client.setOrientation('landscape') client.setNoMargins(True) # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertUrlToFile('https://pdfcrowd.com/api/', 'slide_show.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setElementToConvert('#main') # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertUrlToFile('https://pdfcrowd.com/api/', 'html_part.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setCustomJavascript('el=document.createElement(\'h2\'); el.textContent=\'Hello from Pdfcrowd API\'; el.style.color=\'red\'; el_before=document.getElementsByTagName(\'h1\')[0]; el_before.parentNode.insertBefore(el, el_before.nextSibling)') # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertUrlToFile('http://www.example.com', 'html_inject.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setViewportWidth(992) client.setRenderingMode('viewport') client.setSmartScalingMode('viewport-fit') client.setNoMargins(True) # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertUrlToFile('https://getbootstrap.com/', 'bootstrap.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys import io import zipfile try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # create ZIP archive in_stream = io.BytesIO() with zipfile.ZipFile(in_stream, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) as zip_file: # add HTML content to the archive zip_file.writestr('index.html', '''<html> <head> <style> @font-face { font-family: 'OpenSans'; src: url(fonts/OpenSans.ttf) format('truetype'); } h1 { font-family: OpenSans; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>Hello World</h1> <img src='images/logo.png'> </body> </html>''') # add required local files to the archive with open("/your-path-to/fonts/OpenSans.ttf", "rb") as in_file: zip_file.writestr("fonts/OpenSans.ttf", in_file.read()) with open("/your-path-to/images/logo.png", "rb") as in_file: zip_file.writestr("images/logo.png", in_file.read()) in_stream.seek(0) # create an output stream for the conversion result output_stream = open('HelloFromZip.pdf', 'wb') # run the conversion and write the result into the output stream client.convertStreamToStream(in_stream, output_stream) # close the output stream output_stream.close() except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setCustomJavascript('libPdfcrowd.highlightHtmlElements({backgroundColor: \'rgba(255, 191, 0, 0.1)\', borderColor:null})') # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertUrlToFile('http://www.example.com', 'highlight_background.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setCustomJavascript('libPdfcrowd.highlightHtmlElements({borderColor: \'orange\', backgroundColor: null, padding: \'4px\', margin: \'4px\'})') # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertUrlToFile('http://www.example.com', 'highlight_borders.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setDataString("""{ "name": "World", "product": "Pdfcrowd API" }""") # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertStringToFile('Hello {{ name }} from {{ product }}', 'output.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setDataString("""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <data> <name>World</name> <product>Pdfcrowd API</product> </data>""") # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertStringToFile('Hello {{ data.name }} from {{ data.product }}', 'output.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setDataString("""name: World product: Pdfcrowd API""") # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertStringToFile('Hello {{ name }} from {{ product }}', 'output.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise
import pdfcrowd import sys try: # create the API client instance client = pdfcrowd.HtmlToPdfClient('demo', 'ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d') # configure the conversion client.setDataString("""name,product World,Pdfcrowd API""") # run the conversion and write the result to a file client.convertStringToFile('Hello {{ name }} from {{ product }}', 'output.pdf') except pdfcrowd.Error as why: # report the error sys.stderr.write('Pdfcrowd Error: {}\n'.format(why)) # rethrow or handle the exception raise