pyhtml2pdf

Simple python wrapper to convert HTML to PDF with headless Chrome via selenium.

Install

pip install pyhtml2pdf

Dependencies

• Selenium Chrome Webdriver (If Chrome is installed on the machine you won't need to install the chrome driver)
• Ghostscript

Example

Convert to PDF

Use with website url

from pyhtml2pdf import converter

converter.convert('https://pypi.org', 'sample.pdf')

Use with html file from local machine

import os
from pyhtml2pdf import converter

path = os.path.abspath('index.html')
converter.convert(f'file:///{path}', 'sample.pdf')

Some JS objects may have animations or take a some time to render. You can set a time out in order to help render those objects. You can set timeout in seconds

converter.convert(source, target, timeout=2)

Compress the converted PDF

Some PDFs may be oversized. So there is a built in PDF compression feature.

The power of the compression,

• 0: default
• 1: prepress
• 2: printer
• 3: ebook
• 4: screen

converter.convert(source, target, compress=True, power=0)

Pass Print Options

You can use print options mentioned here

converter.convert( f"file:///{path}", f"sample.pdf", print_options={"scale": 0.95} )

Compress PDF

Use it to compress a PDF file from local machine

import os
from pyhtml2pdf import compressor

compressor.compress('sample.pdf', 'compressed_sample.pdf')

Inspired the works from,

• https://github.com/maxvst/python-selenium-chrome-html-to-pdf-converter.git
• https://github.com/theeko74/pdfc