HTML To PDF API - Python Client

SelectPdf HTML To PDF Online REST API is a professional solution that lets you create PDF from web pages and raw HTML code in your applications. The API is easy to use and the integration takes only a few lines of code.

Features

• Create PDF from any web page or html string.
• Full html5/css3/javascript support.
• Set PDF options such as page size and orientation, margins, security, web page settings.
• Set PDF viewer options and PDF document information.
• Create custom headers and footers for the pdf document.
• Hide web page elements during the conversion.
• Automatically generate bookmarks during the html to pdf conversion.
• Support for partial page conversion.
• Easy integration, no third party libraries needed.
• Works in all programming languages.
• No installation required.

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Installation

Download selectpdf-api-python-client-1.0.0.zip, unzip it and run:

cd selectpdf-api-python-client-1.0.0
python setup.py install

OR

Install SelectPdf Python Client for Online API via PyPI: SelectPdf on PyPI.

pip install selectpdf

OR

Clone selectpdf-api-python-client from Github and install the library.

git clone https://github.com/selectpdf/selectpdf-api-python-client
cd selectpdf-api-python-client
python setup.py install

Sample Code

import sys
import selectpdf

url = "https://selectpdf.com"
outFile = "test.pdf"

try:
    api = selectpdf.HtmlToPdfClient("Your key here")

    api.setPageSize(selectpdf.PageSize.A4)
    api.setPageOrientation(selectpdf.PageOrientation.Portrait)
    api.setMargins(0)
    api.setNavigationTimeout(30)
    api.setShowPageNumbers(False)
    api.setPageBreaksEnhancedAlgorithm(True)

    print ("Starting conversion...")

    api.convertUrlToFile(url, outFile)

    print ("Conversion finished successfully!")

    usage = selectpdf.UsageClient("Your key here")
    info = usage.getUsage(True)
    print("Conversions left this month:", info["available"])

except selectpdf.ApiException as ex:
    print ("An error occurred:", ex.getMessage())