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PDFKit is a Python wrapper for the wkhtmltopdf utility, which converts HTML to PDF using the Webkit rendering engine and Qt. It allows you to generate PDFs from URLs, files, or strings.
Installation
First, you need to install pdfkit and wkhtmltopdf:
pip install pdfkitsudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf # For Debian/UbuntuCopied!✕CopyFor macOS, use:
brew install homebrew/cask/wkhtmltopdfCopied!✕CopyBasic Usage
To create a PDF from a URL, file, or string, you can use the following methods:
import pdfkit# From URLpdfkit.from_url('http://google.com', 'out.pdf')# From filepdfkit.from_file('test.html', 'out.pdf')# From stringpdfkit.from_string('Hello!', 'out.pdf')Copied!✕CopyYou can also pass a list of URLs or files:
pdfkit.from_url(['google.com', 'yandex.ru', 'engadget.com'], 'out.pdf')pdfkit.from_file(['file1.html', 'file2.html'], 'out.pdf')Copied!✕CopyAdding a Page
To add a page to an existing PDF, you can use the wkhtmltopdf options. For example, you can specify multiple HTML files to be converted into a single PDF:
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