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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);
})();
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When saving the file using path: 'url.pdf', is it possible to use an absolute path? Such as ~/Folder/to/save?

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