convert a url to pdf

html2pdf.py

import tempfile
import os
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

# Prereqs:
# apt-get install html2ps ghostscript

def convert_to_pdf(html):
    " Convert some html to a pdf. "
    ps_process = Popen("html2ps", stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, shell=True)
    ps_content = ps_process.communicate(html)[0]

    pdf_process = Popen('ps2pdf - -', stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, shell=True)
    return pdf_process.communicate(ps_content)[0]

def download_url(url):
    import urllib
    return urllib.urlopen(url).read()

def main():
    import sys
    print convert_to_pdf(download_url(sys.argv[-1]))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()