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Kevinlearynet/How to save a webpage as PDF file using Puppeteer.js

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  1. Kevinlearynet revised this gist Aug 28, 2018. 1 changed file with 2 additions and 2 deletions.
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    const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

    class Webpage {
    static async generatePDF(url) {
    static async generatePDF(html) {
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: true }); // Puppeteer can only generate pdf in headless mode.
    const page = await browser.newPage();

    @@ -33,5 +33,5 @@ class Webpage {

    (async() => {
    const url = 'https://ia601405.us.archive.org/18/items/alicesadventures19033gut/19033-h/19033-h.htm';
    const buffer = await Webpage.generatePDF(url);
    const buffer = await Webpage.generatePDF(html);
    })();
  2. Kevinlearynet revised this gist Aug 28, 2018. 1 changed file with 1 addition and 0 deletions.
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    // Save PDF from HTML Microservice
    https://addaptive-microservices.herokuapp.com/api/html-to-pdf

    const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

  3. Kevinlearynet revised this gist Aug 28, 2018. 1 changed file with 2 additions and 0 deletions.
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    // Save PDF from HTML Microservice

    const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

    class Webpage {
  4. Kevinlearynet revised this gist Aug 28, 2018. 1 changed file with 5 additions and 2 deletions.
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    @@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ class Webpage {
    static async generatePDF(url) {
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: true }); // Puppeteer can only generate pdf in headless mode.
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    await page.goto(url, { waitUntil: 'networkidle', networkIdleTimeout: 5000 }); // Adjust network idle as required.

    page.setContent('<p>Hello, world!</p>');

    const pdfConfig = {
    path: 'url.pdf', // Saves pdf to disk.
    path: 'url.pdf', // Saves pdf to disk.
    format: 'A4',
    printBackground: true,
    margin: { // Word's default A4 margins
    @@ -16,6 +18,7 @@ class Webpage {
    right: '2.54cm'
    }
    };

    await page.emulateMedia('screen');
    const pdf = await page.pdf(pdfConfig); // Return the pdf buffer. Useful for saving the file not to disk.

  5. @glenhallworthreadify glenhallworthreadify created this gist Oct 5, 2017.
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    const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

    class Webpage {
    static async generatePDF(url) {
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: true }); // Puppeteer can only generate pdf in headless mode.
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    await page.goto(url, { waitUntil: 'networkidle', networkIdleTimeout: 5000 }); // Adjust network idle as required.
    const pdfConfig = {
    path: 'url.pdf', // Saves pdf to disk.
    format: 'A4',
    printBackground: true,
    margin: { // Word's default A4 margins
    top: '2.54cm',
    bottom: '2.54cm',
    left: '2.54cm',
    right: '2.54cm'
    }
    };
    await page.emulateMedia('screen');
    const pdf = await page.pdf(pdfConfig); // Return the pdf buffer. Useful for saving the file not to disk.

    await browser.close();

    return pdf;
    }
    }

    (async() => {
    const url = 'https://ia601405.us.archive.org/18/items/alicesadventures19033gut/19033-h/19033-h.htm';
    const buffer = await Webpage.generatePDF(url);
    })();