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We make the experience of generating PDFs for application developers not completely miserable. Get started in minutes using our ridiculously powerful REST API.

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#python example
import requests
import json

api_key = 'your-api-key'
endpoint = 'https://v2.api2pdf.com/chrome/pdf/html'
html_to_convert = '<p>Hello World</p>'

api_response = requests.post(endpoint, json={'html': html_to_convert}, headers={'Authorization': api_key})
print(json.loads(api_response.content)['FileUrl'])

Features

PDF GENERATION

Convert HTML and URLs to PDF format with Headless Chrome or wkhtmltopdf.

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DOCUMENT CONVERSION

Convert images and Microsoft Office documents (Word, Powerpoint) to PDF format with LibreOffice.

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MERGE PDFS TOGETHER

Combine multiple PDF files into a single PDF.

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BARCODES

Generate barcodes and QR codes with Zebra Xing.

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THUMBNAILS

Create a thumbnail of a PDF or Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and other files.

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SCREENSHOT WEBSITES

Take a screenshot of a website, url, or raw HTML.

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EXTRACT PAGES FROM PDFS

Splice out pages from existing PDFs by specifying a page range.

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ADD PASSWORD TO PDF

Lock an existing PDF with a password.

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Try It Out

Convert HTML to PDF with Headless Chrome

<html style="color:green;" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Getting Started with Api2Pdf.com</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="container">
      <div class="page-header">
        <h2> Quick Start Guide</h2>
      </div>
      <p class="lead"><a href="https://v2.api2pdf.com">REST API</a> | <a href="https://github.com/Api2Pdf/api2pdf.python">Python</a> | <a href="https://github.com/Api2Pdf/api2pdf.dotnet">.NET</a> | <a href="https://github.com/Api2Pdf/api2pdf.node">Nodejs</a> | <a href="https://github.com/Api2Pdf/api2pdf.php">PHP</a></p>
      <h3>What is Api2Pdf.com?</h2>
      <p>Api2Pdf.com is a REST API for instantly generating PDF documents from HTML, URLs, Microsoft Office Documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), and images. The API also supports merge / concatenation of two or more PDFs. Api2Pdf is a wrapper for popular libraries such as <strong>wkhtmltopdf</strong>, <strong>Headless Chrome</strong>, and <strong>LibreOffice</strong>. You can also generate barcodes and QR codes with Zebra Crossing (ZXING).</p>
      <h3>Acquire API Key</h3>
		<p>
			Create an account at <a href="https://portal.api2pdf.com/register">portal.api2pdf.com</a> to get your API key. It only takes a minute.
		</p>
      <h3>Test the API</h3>
      <p>From the URL below, replace {YourApiKey} with your API key you acquired and then copy and paste the URL below into a new browser window to test a simple GET request.
		</p>
			  <code>
		  https://v2.api2pdf.com/chrome/url?url=https://www.github.com&apikey={YourApiKey}
		  </code>
      <h3>Next Steps</h3>
      <p>Check out the <a href="https://v2.api2pdf.com">REST API docs</a> to see details on the other API calls available along with any advanced options and settings you can use. We also offer convenient packages in <a href="https://github.com/Api2Pdf/api2pdf.python">Python</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Api2Pdf/api2pdf.dotnet">.NET</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Api2Pdf/api2pdf.node">Nodejs</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/Api2Pdf/api2pdf.php">PHP</a>. If you have any questions or issues, please reach out to <strong>support@api2pdf.com</strong>
    </div>	
  </body>
</html>

Convert a URL to PDF with Headless Chrome

Convert an Office Document to PDF with LibreOffice

Sample Word Doc (Download Original Word File)

Sample Excel File (Download Original Excel File)

Sample Powerpoint (Download Original Powerpoint File)

Sample PNG (Download Original PNG File)

Generate PDFs at Massive Scale on Serverless Architecture

Mission Statement

Api2Pdf’s mission statement: Make the experience of generating PDFs for application developers not completely miserable.

Generating PDFs should be fast, cheap, and have no limitations. Popular libraries and APIs like iTextSharp, PDFCrowd, and DocRaptor are unreasonably expensive. You shouldn’t have to break the bank to convert HTML to PDF on Google Cloud Run.

Transparency

Our other promise to our customers is transparency. Most API services out there do not publicize what PDF rendering engines they use under the hood. We are the opposite - we are proud to share with you that we offer the tools you already use: wkhtmltopdf, Headless Chrome, and LibreOffice. The problem that most application developers run into is that since so many websites are moving to cloud hosting environments, running these PDF engines have an added layer of complexity. It is not trivial, for example, to run wkhtmltopdf on Heroku. On top of that, it is not cost effective either. Wkhtmltopdf on Google Cloud Run in a docker container is the perfect use-case for HTML to PDF conversion and URL to PDF conversion. However, configuring wkhtmltopdf and Headless Chrome on Google Cloud Run can take up valuable time and resources from your development team. That is why we did the heavy lifting for you.

Api2Pdf also provides the much beloved LibreOffice on Google Cloud Run in a docker container. LibreOffice is fantastic because it allows you to convert dozens of file types to PDF including Word to PDF, PowerPoint to PDF, Excel to PDF, and Publisher to PDF. Besides Microsoft Office documents, it is capable of converting images too, such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP. But in actuality, it can convert any file that can be opened in LibreOffice to PDF. For example, TXT to PDF and EML to PDF is possible. Any file that can be reasonably printed is a candidate for the LibreOffice endpoint.

Merging PDFs is another challenge - and one that most of the PDF generation API services do not provide solutions for. Api2Pdf helps you merge pdfs on Google Cloud Run by passing the endpoint a list of URLs to existing PDFs. Api2Pdf will consume those PDFs and combine them all together in the order you specified. Merging PDFs together is quite CPU intensive, and so offloading this to a serverless architecture can reduce the load on your web application.

And last, but not least, the barcode generation API is a nice-to-have. PDFs and barcodes go well together. Printing invoices and receipts to PDF with wkhtmltopdf or Headless Chrome and including a barcode is a very common task that our customers perform.

Supported Programming Languages

Api2Pdf is a REST API. This means that you can use the API with any programming language. Our documentation is available at our base route in Swagger Spec form.. However, we do offer client libraries to generate PDFs in Python, PHP, and C#.

We hope you enjoy our product. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out. Thank you.