Convert an HTML document to PDF from a URL in Python with urllib3

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 Python code.

import urllib3, json, base64

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

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

http = urllib3.PoolManager()
response = http.request(
    'POST',
    'https://api.pdfshift.io/v3/convert/pdf',
    headers={
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'Authorization': 'Basic {}'.format(
            base64.b64encode('api:{}'.format(api_key).encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8')
        )
    },
    body=json.dumps(params).encode('utf-8')
)

if response.status != 200:
    raise ValueError(f"Request failed with status code {response.status}: {response.data.decode('utf-8')}")

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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