Extract strings directly from a PDF file URL.

pdf_scraper.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from io import BytesIO

import requests
from pdfminer.high_level import extract_text


def extract_str_fm_pdf_url(url_pdf):
    """Extract strings directly from a PDF file URL.
    Args:
        url_pdf (str): URL of the target PDF file
    Returns:
        Content string
    """
    byte_data = requests.get(url_pdf).content
    bytio_obj = BytesIO(byte_data)
    try:
        return extract_text(bytio_obj)
    except Exception as err_msg:
        return err_msg


if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(extract_str_fm_pdf_url(input('Target PDF URL? >> ')))