Convert an HTML document to PDF from a URL in Node with Axios

In this guide, we'll show you how to convert HTML documents to PDFs using PDFShift's API. This is a straightforward process that can be accomplished with just a few lines of Node code.

const axios = require('axios');
const fs = require('fs');

// You can get an API key at https://pdfshift.io
api_key = 'sk_xxxxxxxxxxxx'

params = {
    source: 'https://www.example.com',
}

const response = await axios.post('https://api.pdfshift.io/v3/convert/pdf', params, {
    auth: {
        username: 'api',
        password: api_key
    }
});

// Handle errors:
if (response.status >= 400) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed with status code ${response.status}: ${response.data}`);
}

fs.writeFileSync('result.pdf', response.data);

console.log('The PDF document was generated and saved to result.pdf');

With this Node script, you can effortlessly convert HTML documents from a URL to PDF files using PDFShift's API. Happy coding!

For further details on the source property and its usage, please refer to our dedicated documentation.

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