A simple npm package to convert HTML to PDF for Node.js applications by using Puppeteer
To use PDF-Puppeteer in your Node app:
npm install --save pdf-puppeteer
# or "yarn add pdf-puppeteer"
Node 7.6.0 or greater.
First, include the convertHTMLToPDF
from the package in your .js file:
const convertHTMLToPDF = require("pdf-puppeteer");
var callback = function (pdf) {
// do something with the PDF like send it as the response
res.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/pdf");
res.send(pdf);
}
/**
* Usage
* @param html - This is the html to be converted to a pdf
* @param callback - Do something with the PDF
* @param [options] - Optional parameter to pass in Puppeteer PDF options
*/
convertHTMLToPDF(html, callback, options);
The convertHTMLToPDF
function takes the three parameters detailed above. For more information on the available Puppeteer options for PDF's take a look at Puppeteer's Page PDF Options. More details on usage can be found by checking out the example in the repo.
To run the example in the repo: clone the repo, npm install on the package, npm install on the example, and run the app:
git clone https://github.com/westmonroe/pdf-puppeteer.git
cd pdf-puppeteer
npm install
cd example
npm install
node index.js
Once the example is running, the PDF route can be tested using Postman. In the example folder, you will find a Postman collection called PDF-Puppeteer.postman_collection.json
with the test routes and test html included.