Documentation
HTML-to-PDF with Python
Test API Key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE
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Installation
pip install --upgrade docraptor
or
easy_install --upgrade docraptor
If you are on a system with easy_install but not pip, you can use easy_install instead. If you're not using virtualenv, you may have to prefix those commands with sudo.
Basic Usage
import docraptor
doc_api = docraptor.DocApi()
doc_api.api_client.configuration.username = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
# doc_api.api_client.configuration.debug = True
response = doc_api.create_doc({
"test": True, # test documents are free but watermarked
"document_content": "<html><body>Hello World</body></html>", # supply content directly
# "document_url": "http://docraptor.com/examples/invoice.html", # or use a url
"name": "docraptor-python.pdf", # help you find a document later
"document_type": "pdf", # pdf or xls or xlsx
# "javascript": True, # enable JavaScript processing
# "prince_options": {
# "media": "screen", # use screen styles instead of print styles
# "baseurl": "http://hello.com", # pretend URL when using document_content
# },
})
Next Steps
- Optionally store and get a URL for your converted document with document hosting
- View more code examples with error handling, asynchronous creation, file saving, and document hosting.
- Perfect your document styling with our knowledge base, style and formatting reference, and API reference. Easily add headers and footers, page breaks, page numbers, table of contents, and much more!
With DocRaptor, it's fast and painless to convert HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into PDF and XLS documents with Python. Below are working Python examples for creating documents. Our API reference lists all the generation options and our style and formatting guide will help make it look perfect.