Puppeteer PDF server

This is a simple server that uses Puppeteer to generate PDFs from HTML. It uses a simple HTTP server that receives either a URL or HTML content and returns a PDF.

Usage

Running the server

Using npm

npx puppeteer-pdf-server

Using Docker

docker run -p 3000:3000 -d --name puppeteer-pdf-server abdelilah/puppeteer-pdf-server

Using the source code

npm install # To install dependencies
npm start

Making a request

Generate a PDF from a URL

This can be done by sending a POST request to the server with a JSON body containing the URL like {"url": "https://example.com"}.

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://example.com"}' http://localhost:3000 > example.pdf

Generate a PDF from HTML content

This can be done by sending a POST request to the server with a JSON body containing the HTML content like {"html": "<h1>Hello, world!</h1>"}. Alternatively you can also send the HTML content directly as a the request data.

# Using a JSON body
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"html": "<h1>Hello, world!</h1>"}' http://localhost:3000 > example.pdf

# Using the request data
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/html" -d "<h1>Hello, world!</h1>" http://localhost:3000 > example.pdf

PDF options

You can also specify options for the PDF generation by sending a JSON body with the options key. The options are the same as the ones used by Puppeteer's page.pdf method. For example:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://example.com", "options": {"format": "A4"}}' http://localhost:3000 > example.pdf