HTML to PDF rendering server

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The name says it all. You request a POST with an HTML, and then you will get the response with the rendered PDF.

HTTP API

Send POST / request with Content-Type: text/html e.g.:

.. code-block:: http

POST / HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Accept: application/pdf

HTML to be rendered to PDF

This document will be rendered to PDF.

(Note that you have to set Accept: application/pdf header.)

And then you will get a PDF document through its response e.g.:

.. code-block:: http

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/pdf Server: html2pdf-server

(...omitted...)

Available mime types ''''''''''''''''''''

You can set Accept header to various mime types.

application/pdf respond a PDF document. this type is the default type.

image/png respond a PNG image.

image/jpeg respond a JPEG image.

Session in curl

.. code-block:: console

$ cat input.html

HTML to be rendered to PDF

This document will be rendered to PDF.

Result screenshot:

.. image:: screenshot.png :alt: Result screenshot

Getting started using Docker

Due to its non-Python dependencies the easist way to use this is using Docker. The official Docker image exposes 8080 port for HTTP server.

.. code-block:: console

$ docker run -p 8080:8080 spoqa/html2pdf-server

If you need a pong endpoint for health check specify PONG_PATH environment variable:

.. code-block:: console

$ docker run -e PONG_PATH=/ping/ -p 8080:8080 spoqa/html2pdf-server Serving on http://0.0.0.0:8080

Getting started without Docker

Installation ''''''''''''

You can install it using pip:

.. code-block:: console

$ pip install --user git+git://github.com/spoqa/html2pdf-server.git

Note that WeasyPrint_ has several dependencies that need to be installed using system package managers e.g. APT, Homebrew. Read the docs.__

.. _WeasyPrint: http://weasyprint.org/ __ http://weasyprint.org/docs/install/#by-platform

Running server ''''''''''''''

Use html2pdfd command:

.. code-block:: console

$ html2pdfd --port 8080 Serving on http://0.0.0.0:8080

Or you can use your preferred WSGI server as well (WSGI endpoint is html2pdfd:app):

.. code-block:: console

$ aiohttp-wsgi-serve html2pdfd:app Serving on http://:::8080 http://0.0.0.0:8080

License

Distributed under AGPLv3_ or later.

.. _AGPLv3: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

Changelog

Version 1.2.2 '''''''''''''

Released on January 31, 2017.

• Fixed a crash during the server prints the first log.

Version 1.2.1 '''''''''''''

Released on January 31, 2017.

• Docker image now includes built-in fonts for Chinese/Japanese/Korean.

Version 1.2.0 '''''''''''''

Released on January 27, 2017.

• The prerequisite Python version became 3.5 or higher. Python 3.4 or lower are no more supported.
• Replaced waitress_ with aiohttp-wsgi_.
• The Docker image now uses Python 3.5 instead of 3.4.

.. _waitress: https://github.com/Pylons/waitress .. _aiohttp-wsgi: https://github.com/etianen/aiohttp-wsgi

Version 1.1.0 '''''''''''''

Released on January 26, 2017.

• Added an option to enable pong endpoint for health check.

  • PONG_PATH environment variable for Docker.
  • --pong-path option for CLI.

• Fixed a bug that --help option crashed while it's trying to render default values.

Version 1.0.0 '''''''''''''

Initial release. Released on January 25, 2017.