Python Convert Html to PDF

Convert HTML/webpage to PDF

There are many websites that do not allow to download the content in form of pdf, they either ask to buy their premium version or don't have such download service in form of pdf.

Conversion in 3 Steps from Webpage/HTML to PDF

Step1: Download library pdfkit

 $ pip install pdfkit

Step2: Download wkhtmltopdf For Ubuntu/Debian:

 sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

For Windows: (a)Download link: WKHTMLTOPDF (b)Set: PATH variable set binary folder in Environment variables. Step3: Code in Python to Download: (i) Already Saved HTML page Python

import pdfkit
pdfkit.from_file('test.html', 'out.pdf')

(ii) Convert by website URL Python

import pdfkit
pdfkit.from_url('https://www.google.co.in/','shaurya.pdf')

(iii) Store text in PDF Python

import pdfkit
pdfkit.from_string('Shaurya GFG','GfG.pdf')

Congratulations: Your pdf file would be created and saved in the same directory where python file exists. Miscellaneous Knowledge Content: 1. You can pass a list with multiple URLs or files: Python

pdfkit.from_url(['google.com', 'geeksforgeeks.org', 'facebook.com'], 'shaurya.pdf')
pdfkit.from_file(['file1.html', 'file2.html'], 'out.pdf')

2. Save content in a variable Python

# Use False instead of output path to save pdf to a variable
pdf = pdfkit.from_url('http://google.com', False)