Wkhtmltopdf python wrapper to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine and qt
Project description
Python 2 and 3 wrapper for wkhtmltopdf utility to convert HTML to PDF using Webkit.
This is adapted version of ruby PDFKit library, so big thanks to them!
Installation
Install python-pdfkit:
$ pip install pdfkit
Install wkhtmltopdf:
Debian/Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
Warning! Version in debian/ubuntu repos have reduced functionality (because it compiled without the wkhtmltopdf QT patches), such as adding outlines, headers, footers, TOC etc. To use this options you should install static binary from wkhtmltopdf site or you can use this script.
Windows and other options: check wkhtmltopdf homepage for binary installers
Usage
For simple tasks:
import pdfkit
pdfkit.from_url('http://google.com', 'out.pdf')
pdfkit.from_file('test.html', 'out.pdf')
pdfkit.from_string('Hello!', 'out.pdf')
You can pass a list with multiple URLs or files:
pdfkit.from_url(['google.com', 'yandex.ru', 'engadget.com'], 'out.pdf') pdfkit.from_file(['file1.html', 'file2.html'], 'out.pdf')
You can specify all wkhtmltopdf options. You can drop ‘–’ in option name. If option without value, use None, False or ‘’ for dict value:
options = {
'page-size': 'Letter',
'margin-top': '0.75in',
'margin-right': '0.75in',
'margin-bottom': '0.75in',
'margin-left': '0.75in',
'encoding': "UTF-8",
'no-outline': None
}
pdfkit.from_url('http://google.com', 'out.pdf', options=options)
Due to wkhtmltopdf command syntax, TOC and Cover options must be specified separately:
toc = {
'xsl-style-sheet': 'toc.xsl'
}
cover = 'cover.html'
pdfkit.from_file('file.html', options=options, toc=toc, cover=cover)
You can specify external CSS file when converting files or strings using css option.
Warning This is a workaround for this bug in wkhtmltopdf. You should try –user-style-sheet option first.
css = 'example.css'
pdfkit.from_file('file.html', options=options, css=css)
You can also pass any options through meta tags in your HTML:
body = """
<html>
<head>
<meta name="pdfkit-page-size" content="Legal"/>
<meta name="pdfkit-orientation" content="Landscape"/>
</head>
Hello World!
</html>
"""
pdfkit.from_string(body, 'out.pdf') #with --page-size=Legal and --orientation=Landscape
Troubleshooting
IOError: 'No wkhtmltopdf executable found':
Make sure that you have wkhtmltopdf in your PATH. where wkhtmltopdf in Windows or which wkhtmltopdf on Linux should return actual path to binary.
Changelog
- 0.3.0
Python 3 support
- 0.2.4
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Update setup.py
- 0.2.3
Fix installing with setup.py
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