Quickly export to PDF whatever page/url.

savepage.js

#!/usr/bin/env node
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

/**
 * npm link/savepage url=https://stackoverflow.com/
 * Margins default to Microsoft Word A4 margins.
 */

class SavePage {

  constructor(params) {

    const settings = this.normalizeOptions(params);

    if (!settings.url) {
      throw new Error('Missing save page url! Try again.');
    }

    const config = {
      verbose: true,
      consolePage: false,
      consoleOptions: false,
      path: `${this.getHostName(settings.url)}.pdf`,
      width: 800,
      height: 600,
      waitUntil: 'networkidle2',
      headless: true,
      slowMo: 0, // 250ms
      deviceScaleFactor: 1,
      format: 'A4',
      printBackground: false,
      margin: {
        top: '2.54cm',
        bottom: '2.54cm',
        left: '2.54cm',
        right: '2.54cm'
      }
    };

    this.options = { ...config, ...settings };
  }

  async save() {
    const options = this.options;

    if (options.consoleOptions === true) {
      console.log('Save options:', options);
    }

    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
      headless: options.headless,
      slowMo: options.slowMo
    });

    const page = await browser.newPage();

    await page.setViewport({
      width: options.width,
      height: options.height,
      deviceScaleFactor: options.deviceScaleFactor
    });

    await page.goto(options.url, { waitUntil: options.waitUntil });

    if (options.verbose === true) {
      const data = await page.evaluate(() => {
        return {
          href: location.href,
          width: document.documentElement.clientWidth,
          height: document.documentElement.clientHeight,
          deviceScaleFactor: window.devicePixelRatio
        };
      });
      console.log('...');
      console.log('URL:', data.href);
      console.log('Page width:', data.width);
      console.log('Page height:', data.height);
      console.log('Page scale:', data.deviceScaleFactor);
    }

    if (options.consolePage) {
      page.on('console', msg => console.log(msg.text()));
    }

    await page.pdf({
      path: options.path,
      format: options.format,
      printBackground: options.printBackground,
      margin: options.margin
    });

    return await browser.close();
  }

  normalizeOptions(args) {
    return args
    .slice(2)
    .map(arg => arg.split('='))
    .reduce((args, [value, key]) => {
      args[value] = key;
      return args;
    }, {});
  }

  getHostName (url) {
    return new URL(url).hostname;
  }
}

(async () => {
  const page = new SavePage(process.argv);
  await page.save();
})();

{
"name": "savepage",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "savepage.js",
"bin": {
"savepage": "savepage.js"
},
"scripts": {
"test": "echo "Error: no test specified" && exit 1"
},
"author": "Tom Shaw [email protected] (http://tomshaw.us)",
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
"puppeteer": "^2.0.0"
},
"devDependencies": {}
}