Convert an HTML document to PDF from a URL in Python with requests

Converting HTML documents to PDFs using PDFShift's API is a straightforward process. With just a few lines of Python code, you can seamlessly convert a URL into a PDF document.

import requests

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

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

response = requests.post(
    'https://api.pdfshift.io/v3/convert/pdf',
    auth=('api', api_key),
    json=params
)
response.raise_for_status()

with open('result.pdf', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(response.content)

print('The PDF document was generated and saved to result.pdf')

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

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