Seriously, you could use it to generate invoices, create birthday cards, or all other sorts of fun things. Like we said, if you really like Google's homepage today and want to save it as a PDF, you could use wkhtmltopdf for that. Check out the auto-generated wkhtmltopdf manual.Ĭommand line tools are awesome, but I want a C library. There are plenty of command line options. Jinja2 is a great tool to become familiar with. That's great, I've always wanted to turn Google's homepage into a PDF, but I want a table of contents as well. Note that you also need to install a tool called wkhtmltopdf for pdfkit to work. It is an open-source command line tool used to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the Qt WebKit rendering engine. Create your HTML document that you want to turn into a PDF (or image)įor example, if I really like the treatment Google has done to their logo today and want to capture it forever as a PDF: pip install pdfkit (or pip3 for python3) Once the library is installed, install wkhtmltopdf.In our project folder install the python plugin requirements module for Serverless. We need a Serverless plugin to install our dependencies on Lambda. Since we are using Serverless and AWS Lambda we cannot just run pip install pdfkit. Download a precompiled binary or build from source Installation Install python-pdfkit: pip install pdfkit (or pip3 for python3) Install wkhtmltopdf: Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf macOS. Now that we have the WKHTMLtoPDF binary, we need the Python library, pdfkit to use it.There is also a C library, if you're into that kind of thing. These run entirely 'headless' and do not require a display or display service.

Wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are open source (LGPLv3) command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the Qt WebKit rendering engine.

Pip install pdfkit